There's a great quote by Joe Mcnally that goes something like, "Pray for bad weather. It makes for great photographs."Emma and I headed out to the desert for an afternoon of shooting and sight seeing. The day started calm enough but a sandstorm came out of nowhere. I had a trunk load of gear and decided to keep with one camera and one lens. You don't want to be taking gear apart in a sandstorm. It was a great risk to keep shooting but the Phase One XF100 survived.
I've been pursuing photography as a career for twenty years and it's been a hell of a trip thus far. I have risen and I have fallen a number of times and I truly feel that I have finally reached base camp. On a clear day I can see my goal. On the not so clear days I'm still climbing. Still pushing. I'm pushing myself and my subjects and my craft.
I think of myself more as a director than a photographer these days. I tend to work with subjects who aren't that comfortable in front of the camera and I direct them from start to finish.
I've traveled through 49 of the 50 states and five of the seven continents. From a boardroom in New York, to a film set in Los Angeles, to a farm in Texas, to the streets of Hong Kong to the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco, I pursue photography with everything I have. Hire me for your next project and you'll get everything I have to give.
(North Dakota is the last state I need to reach)
