High quality photographic prints, canvases, albums and greeting cards. What I like about photography:
Fine art wise, I like to create a piece that brings people around my perception, stimulated by the arrangement of shapes and colors, or lack of, soft lines, hard lines. I love impressionist painters work and get inspiration in my own work from it. I consider myself primarily a portrait photograph
er. I love getting to know people through my lens. I strive to show the core personality and essence of a person through their portraits. If my subject looks at themselves in one of my pictures, and says “That is so me”, I have perfected my craft. The same would be true in how a parent sees their child. On that note, I cherish the relationships I have the privilege of cultivating with my clients. Privilege, because the “let me in” to their vulnerability, and cast off the masks they wear for the rest of the world. Some photographers do babies, or seniors, or women exclusively, I Think of myself as “exclusively yours” photographer. I know, sounds like a cheesy commercial, but I’m sincere. I want to celebrate you riding in your first horse show at 10years old, your 16th birthday, your engagement and wedding, pregnancy, new baby, his 1st birthday..... because I SEE you, and I know you. The unique way you curl your lip when you get embarrassed, the really really full smile you get when you are bursting with joy, and the special scowl you have when your brother teases you are the goals of my capture. My schooling and training:
I took my first photography classes at Daytona Beach Photographic School. A basic SLR class and darkroom lab. I got accepted to the Atlanta Collage of Art and attended for 1 year, but I really wanted to take more photography courses. I transferred to South Eastern Center for the Photographic Arts, in Atlanta. I was in heaven, completely immersed in photography, exactly where I wanted to be. Every day I HAD to take pictures for school, I worked in the lad/darkroom at school, all my friends were photographers. Atlanta is such a great photo town ,too.... tons of gallery shows, and awesome amazing landscape and cityscape close by. I graduated from SECPA and moved to Colorado, a small resort town in the Mountains. Over the years I have struggled to earn my living being a Professional Photographer, often having to take other jobs. But I am unequivocally a photographer at heart. My fav photographers: Alfred Stieglitz, I really consider him the traditional portrait master
Ansel Adams, the performance he was able to utilize from films (inventing the zone system), and his equipment (8x10 view finder camera) is amazing. His ability to compose and read the light- amazing. Jay Maisel’s work is like a study in color and composition
Jerry Uelsman and Angus McBean were so brilliant in creativity. Creating those incredible compositions in the darkroom, is excruciatingly difficult. They were ahead of the times, and really instrumental in progressing the art of photography to new levels. Annie Liebovitz, love her work, I consider it to be very true to purist form of photography. Her attention to light and detail is breathtaking. Her images are magnetic stories.
