I have been a photographer
for what seems like forever. When
I was about 12 my father gave me his Argus Rangefinder. I instantly fell in love with
photography.
A “few” years later I was
photographing advertising, corporate and editorial assignments in Dallas, TX.
In 1995 American Airlines
sent me to Germany to photograph a story on the popularity of the American
Cowboy in Germany. This job was
fun and crazy. I met people that
really wanted to be cowboys, some to the extent of building western towns and
on weekends pretending to be just that, cowboys.
Later that year they sent me
to France to photograph a story on wine.
It was an exciting assignment going up into the French mountains where I
would photograph wine châteaus.
During this trip I made my first visit to Paris and fell in love with "La
Ville-Lumière"
While I was there I made the
decision to take a hiatus from advertising, concentrate on travel photography
and move to Paris.
Two years later I made my
first trip to Asia, specifically the Philippines. I had studied with a Buddhist Master from there and had
always worn a good luck charm from the Philippines my dad gave me when I was 7
or 8. Looking back now it seems it
was destiny.
Sure enough two years later
back in the Philippines on my fourth trip I met the woman who would be my wife
and the mother of my daughter.
Photography is my
passion. I am continually trying
to learn, to see things in a new way and progress, to find who I am through my
photography.
Sometimes when I am lucky I
am still that kid with an Argus.
Besides
photography I love to surf, exercise, read, play the guitar and spend time with
my daughter Jade.