I was born and raised in Washington, DC. I virtually learned how to be a photographer from the inside out…and I do mean…inside out. In my youth I was obsessed with learning how cameras work. I was more concerned about the inside of a camera then the pictures that it took. Growing up in the Polaroid age just fascinated me to no end. So I began studying cameras in school and the principles behind how they worked. My father, who was an amateur photographer, taught me how to develop pictures in his dark room at home and before long I learned how to repair cameras.
After grasping the principles of photography, I realized I could use the camera to express my feelings toward my two greatest passions: nature and art. Therefore, I started taking pictures to share with people the things I saw that was significant in nature from an artistic point of view. This point about being artistic with nature resulted in much criticism. There’s a fine line between truth and art in nature photography which I was willing to cross in order to maintain my integrity to my artistic vision and produce photos that were aesthetically pleasing to the eye (i.e., using filters and digital manipulation). Cameras are all about the light and that is what I feel I've mastered…chasing the light as it were and capturing fine imagery using my knowledge of the relationship between light and photography.