Capturing the world in stills...
My narrative is simple. I love teasing the eye and the mind. Whether it's breathtaking sceneries, obscure ruins, street stories, or my kids doing backyard water-play on a hot summer day. My goal is to elicit a feeling of curiosity and affection in the spectator with visually coherent and aesthetically pleasing pictures.
I am a hybrid shooter using both film and digital photography. My bag has a full frame Canon 6D digital camera and a medium format Mamiya RZ67 film camera. While digital taught me a lot about perfecting the technical aspects of generating a well-exposed shot, film surprised me and taught me something different and unanticipated. Film photography has helped me “see” in a new way. Film requires you to slow down, breathe and think about what is in the frame and what it means, before you push the trigger, mainly because (at least in my case) a frame is no longer just a few MB on a drive or card that can be visualized instantaneously, but rather; its several bucks out of your pocket in fees for purchasing the film and having it processed in a lab. Basically, with film you are making a futuristic investment by betting that a picture you take now, will elicit that feeling of curiosity and affection in two weeks, when you finally get those rolls back and see the frame again outside the prism. That is the driving factor in what makes you slow down and evaluate whether the frame is worth capturing and preserving forever. Film makes your future you become your present critic!
I am mostly a place and people photographer, and hope that I some day can merge the two to master environmental portraiture, which in my mind is the ultimate story telling form of photography, or art for that matter. I still have some ways to go though. Enjoy my journey!