About

My path to becoming a photographer is nothing you would consider ordinary or traditional; maybe that accounts for my non-traditional style of photography. I didn’t have a camera handed down to me by my father or grandfather or try to document my life through pictures. I didn’t attend an art school or get a degree in photography. I picked up a camera for the first time in late 2008 in order to take a step back from my life, to take myself out of its rigors.

From that point on, I became engulfed by the art. At first, like any person trying something new, I sucked. I was trying to create images out of subjects and locations that had no appeal or interest to me. As my passion for photography grew, I started looking for different paths and forms of photography to spark my interest. Eventually, this led to my first big epiphany: HDR images.

It seemed that my photography went from quotidian and frozen, to bright and dynamic overnight (well, at least it seemed that way to an amateur photographer). My HDR imagery led to an internship with a Chicago-based advertising company where I shot hundreds of HDR Car images to be used for web and print advertising. Within 9-months of beginning photography, I was already having my images published and used to promote companies.

After that, I searched for other ways to pique my interest in photography. I took my knowledge of HDR and my love of creating vivid images and tried to approach another sector of photography, Sports Portraits. Sportraits became a way to fuse my longtime passion for sports into my newfound love of photography. What began as an experiment in photographing my former track teammates ultimately resulted in a full-fledged photo campaign for the 2010 University of Oregon’s Track and Field team.

As I continue to grow as a photographer and as a person, my style will undoubtedly be impacted by my experiences. I will draw on my past influences, my photographic heroes and my dynamic approach that got me to where I am today. My ultimate goal is to continue creating something different and unique and to never be confined by the term “traditional”.