“Your calling is your life assignment.”
― Sunday Adelaja
Nothing has spoken to me more than experiencing life from different perspectives behind the lens… From political journalism in D.C. to villages in Taiwan to high profile events. The world keeps growing.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
-Lao Tzu
Capturing love is my favorite thing to do. In all the moments, big and small. Weddings are a tumultuous combination of all of these things. Wedding chaos is always chaos, but they are always beautiful.
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
- Dorothea Lange
I love painting, in a different way than I love photography, maybe because I loved it first. That being said, it makes my heart spring to life when I am able to mix the mediums.
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro
Going to remote places and capturing the essence of a moment is a live long dream. Not only do I have fun wandering around in beautiful places and looking for amazing light, but I get to be surprised at how magical that lighting can make a moment.
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time… Everything was touched with magic.”
-Margaret Bourke-White
The magic of golden hour never ceases to stop me in my tracks. Whether I am outside with my camera or not, it’s hard not to admire the world cast in a golden glow.
“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents”
- Bob Ross
There is something special about carving into a leaf with a paper clip. The leaf will die, and the art will change and all that is left are these photos. (Unless I bother to preserve it)
