About me, hmm. I’m originally from northern Colorado, graduated from Colorado State University with a BS in Business. I’m a rock climber, cyclist, and fan of craft beers. Been hanging out on the Gulf coast of Florida for the last couple of years. Great beaches, weather, oysters, local music. Insane drivers, though.
Like most photographers, I’ve had a fascination with the medium since I was a kid. Won my first plastic camera in a contest selling flower seeds at the age of ten. Yearbook photographer in high school. Hobbyist for years. I started shooting seriously about four years ago, and have done little else since.
I draw inspiration where ever I can find it. Expressionist and Modernist painters, Renaissance sculpture, Edward Weston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arnold Newman, Annie Leibovitz, my wife, our kids, beautiful women, craggy-faced old men, studio space, flat light.
Common questions about my work:
Are these digital or film?
- Both. I shoot with both digital and film cameras, as the situation dictates. When I shoot film, I develop the film, scan the negatives into my computer. I do all my printing digitally.
What’s with the tattoos?
- Virtually every tattooed person I’ve ever met has been fascinating. Amazing stories, life histories, creativity. I’m drawn to the challenge of combining the beauty of the natural human form, with the decoration that these individuals choose, into images that are aesthetically stunning and carry a flash of the model’s personality.
How do you get those women to take their clothes off?
- This one just makes me roll my eyes.
