About Me

It all started in an eighth grade creative writing class. I was working on a research paper about the Chattahoochee river and decided to include some photographs. Armed with a Kodak Instamatic camera and embarrassingly chaperoned by my mother, I drifted down the river in a rented inflatable raft. That day, I snapped through a roll of film with the same fluid momentum as the river. When I got the prints back, I was awestruck. My hands held the same images that I had seen days earlier. Sorting through the small square photographs, I realized that my life had suddenly changed.

I went on to Episcopal High School, a boarding school in Alexandria VA. There, I studied, played sports, and took pictures, but mostly took pictures - for the yearbook, the newsletter…for whomever. At UNC/Chapel Hill, my plan was to major in physics until I showed a D in that subject. Shooting and working in the Daily Tar Heel darkroom consumed my life. It was time to transfer. At Brooks Institute of Photography, in Santa Barbara CA, I thrived, but I loved photography so much I was wary of making it my profession. I had seen many commercial shooters become bored and stale with what was once their passion.

Fascinated with the physical and chemical processes of photography, I majored in Color Technology, and so I kept on shooting. I moved to New York City where I opened a custom Cibachrome photo lab. During business hours I made reproduction quality prints for artists such as Andres Serrano and Sandy Skoglund. In the early morning hours or at dusk, I would explore abstract compositions in New York's urban environs.

Eventually, I left the print-making business and moved back home to Georgia, where I turned my lens to nature. Through forests, meadows, and colorful undergrowth, I found mysterious images that our mundane daily visions overlook.

For a short time I taught at The Showcase School and The Portfolio Center, both in Atlanta. Now, I work full-time as an independent fine art photographer. For the past several years, I have been shooting abstract photographs of flowers and botanicals.

About my Work

The images you see here were all shot with conventional 35mm camera equipment and color print film. After having the film processed, I scanned the negatives into digital files in order to adjust the hue, saturation, and contrast in ways that were never available with traditional photographic processes. Any distortion you see was created with my camera, not my computer. I found these images in areas around my home in Georgia, in the mountains of North Carolina, or along the Southern coast. Where is not as important as my state of mind. With a clear head, and the passion to shoot, I can photograph anywhere.