I am passionate about Photography, Technology, and Exploration – now I want to share all that I have found.
For as long as I can remember I have been into technology, photography, and exploration. In high school is when I really started to develop my skills. It began with short films as school projects but from that, I really fell into still photographs and graphic design. I graduated from Birmingham HS Performing and Media Arts Academy. As time went on I did continue to take pictures but not really doing anything with them. All this time I just went around taking photographs and keeping them in my personal collections.
As a young boy, my father would take me on what I remember to be these great adventures. Every summer we would take road trips to different parts of the southwest. My most favorite trip was the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It was not the sights when we got there but the journey it took to get there. My father used to own a small, and I mean tiny, blue hatchback. This was in the days before smartphones and in-car DVD players. A time when you had to pay attention to what was going on around you. As unlikely as it seems that car took us everywhere. My father even felt it was an all-terrain vehicle. We went on a hunter’s path meant for big 4x4s which we learned shortly after when we got stuck. Luckily for us, we had gotten stuck right near a hunter’s camping spot. All we had to do was wait for him to get back, whenever that was. The people that you meet on these adventures, I feel, are what make them so memorable. What good is an adventure if you have no one to share it with? From then on I always had this desire to go out on random adventures and meet complete strangers and create all new memories.
With an ever-embedded passion for exploration, I join the US Military. I took the advice of a TV commercial and set out to explore the world. I felt what better way to see the world and document some great moments along the way. I feel that my time in the military has given me some great opportunities and experiences that now have given me the confidence to actually display and talk about my work.
My goals are to inform and inspire. From what I’ve seen through my lens and inspire all those that were like me; shy or timid about their work. And challenge everyone to put themselves out there because there is no time like the present to begin exploring.