As a child of the 70’s, I was a latchkey kid allowed to wander my neighborhood endlessly. I grew up in a small town surrounded by open space where I spent endless hours outside. The first time I remember experiencing a landscape, I was eight years old. I was poking through an overgrown drainage when I passed through a tunnel of shrubs that opened to a hidden, sunlit, verdant meadow with an abandoned apple tree. This was the moment I realized one could viscerally feel a place. Since then, I have been working to re-capture this feeling through design, as a landscape architect, and photography.
I am forever intrigued by photography as it starts analytically, through the mechanics of the camera, and then morphs into a dynamic image through light and composition. This transition from the analytical to the emotional is what I continually strive to catch with my photography. As landscapes are my first love, I use this as a base for my photographic explorations. As I investigate landscapes through photography, I realize that the understanding of landscapes is boundless. The ways in which I am connected to the land and the emotions I discover through this connection and investigation are endless.