I’ve always had an eye for framing a shot. I guess I was an art director before I ever knew what the term meant. Like with architecture and design, subtraction down to the most powerful and essential parts is magic. 

I enjoy gathering memories and capturing fleeting moments in amber through my travel photos. Whole stories (and sounds and scents and people and experiences) unlock and unspool when someone comments on a single photograph. While my RAM is increasingly full, these photo memories help me to remember and reappreciate the cultures and the moments we’ve had the pleasure and privilege to experience. 

I love the increasingly sophisticated and  more powerful evolution of smartphones and their software and lenses, which allow me to mostly “pack light” and simply experience places, with the opportunity to quickly capture a memory at will. It’s very different than the old days of having to live your vacation through the lens of a camera, separating you from the experience and making you always only an observer. 

Inspirations: Grand vistas, ethnic architecture and craft, details and textures, the National Geographic photographers of the 1970s, travel magazines, Instagram.