I am a stop-and-smell-the-roses type of person, and there have been many times in my life that I have wished there was a camera installed in my head so I could just tap my temple capture my vision to share it with the world.
Although my interest in serious photography didn’t become apparent until I was well into my thirties, I have always expressed myself creatively. Art and crafts are just a part of who I am. I remember the first photo I ever took was of my little brother, playing in a mountain of freshly raked leaves that had fallen from the maple trees out in our front yard. I couldn't have been more than seven years old.
It was the fall of 2007, while attending a photography workshop with landscape photographer, Andrew Collett, in Algonquin Park, when I truly connected with my camera. I felt “odd” when I stepped out of the car upon returning home from that weekend. Everything was flat, boring and quite uninspiring. I had left a piece of my soul in Algonquin Park. It was that moment when I knew, “I am a photographer.”
I love photographing everything around me, but I am deeply inspired by nature and my first love will always be landscapes. There’s nothing like being up before the sun to be at that “right spot” to give witness to the birth of a brand new day in the misty woods, the reflection of a vibrant sunrise on a glassy lake, or photographing the silhouette of a gnarled tree against the intense rainbow sky of a summer sunset.
Photography is my way of opening my soul to the world and sharing the some of most intimate moments of my life. My deepest hope is that when you see my photographs you will experience some of the marvel and wonder that inspired me to capture them in the first place.