About
Photography is a blast. Here’s why I do it.
Just one week before September 11th, 2001, my
wife, Tonya, and I sold most everything we owned and quit our jobs to
backpack around the world. A 3 month trip became a year as we moved
continuously eastward through each of the world’s 24 time zones. We
recorded on film  the bullfights of Spain, the spiny
backbone of
the Swiss Alps, life on the streets of Hanoi and the desolation of
Australia’s Outback. But the best scenes were the ones we captured only
in our memories. Like hearing a call to prayer in Istanbul or the musty
smell of the cellar where dynamic Umberto created his grandfather’s
traditional Italian schiaccetra dessert wine. I’ll never forget having
tea with a Chinese woman in her tiny hut after she helped us cross a
dangerous ledge high up in Leaping Tiger Gorge.
But once we came home to Colorado, we soon
realized the beauty of our own state rivals just about anything the
world has to offer. We moved from Boulder to Longmont and bought our
first home, all while setting out to pursue a livelihood we could never
have envisioned a year earlier.
Tonya is an equal partner in this adventure. In
addition to matting and framing most of our pieces and periodically
assisting me with weddings, she handles more details than I can count.
She is my true companion!
I feel blessed to be invited into my clients’
extremely special day. While I take my work very seriously, I do my job
in a way that eliminates stress for the bride and groom and causes
everyone to have a good time. My previous clients remark how fun it was
to work with me and that they were tremendously pleased with the
photographs they will now cherish for generations.
My inspiration comes from the source of it all,
God. His gifts to me lie both behind and in front of my camera. If I
see the unnecessary beauty of His creation any better than someone
else, he gets the credit for everything. His fingerprints are
everywhere in the universe; where do you see them?
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