That which is most familiar to all of us - the human form - its commonality as well as its individual appeal from one person to the next, is at the heart of what drives me in my journey as an artist.

I'm continually amazed at the limitless potential each person may offer my lens, and my hope is to capture their essence and make it worthy of an audience. Some of my pictures are contrived in the studio, and some are spontaneously made in the subject's environment, yet all of my images are a result of both my vision and my models own personal contribution.

My work is currently divided into three main categories: Nudes as a Landscape; a collection of personality portraits entitled, Not so famous people I have known; Angels Among Us, a study of religious icons in modern society; and a photo essay, My family and myself which is accompanied with a portion of brief text about each member.

As a young boy growing up in California's Bay Area, surrounded by stacks of comic books and colored pencils, I had my earliest recollections of wishing someday to be an artist. I can remember using sheets of wax butcher paper my grandparents gave me to trace out my favorite comic heroes and the notion of someday becoming a comic illustrator seemed to flood my dreams. In grade school, caricatures of teachers and classmates littered my Pee Chee folders, desktops and notebooks.

When I penciled the face of a Pirate (as described in the then familiar TV Guide advertisements) and the man came to my home stating I had what it took to join the art institute he was representing, I felt as if I might have a chance. After all, my drawings of famous monsters and comic heroes had appeared as winning entries on the then local Bob Wilkins Creature Features television program when I was 12, and I felt I was on the right track.

But after my first semester of college at Sacramento State University, I soon realized that I didn't have the patience to be an illustrator, painter or a master of any other conventional two dimensional medium ... then I bought my first camera. I remember the exhilaration of seeing an image I had captured coming to life before my eyes in a tray of alkaline based solution and I was hooked. It seemed far more thrilling to make an image in 1/125 of a second, rather than hours or weeks of working on a canvas, and so I immersed myself in the art and science of photography.

As it turns out, I now spend hours in my darkroom working on a single image and the notion of making "quick art" seems foolish to me. Today, I work as a full time wedding and event photographer, utilizing a photojournalist approach to most of my work. I believe in capturing moments, rather than manufacturing or posing my subjects. When I photograph a wedding, I use the same candid approach I used while working in the field of journalism and typically, working with people as subjects gives me the most enjoyment.

Although "people" as a subject is my first love (whether it be documenting a human interest story for print or a big city gala affair) I do enjoy working with found objects and allowing for the imagination to be my only boundry. Everyone will see something different in the clouds, and hopefully something different in what I have photographed, and in that way, art can be as individual to the viewer as one wishes it to be. I hope these images speak to those who view them in a way that stirs their imagination as much as it did mine when I first captured them.