PHOTOGRAPHY STATEMENT
I have been in love with photography from the day I shot and developed my first roll of film for beginning photography. My first art class & the reason I decided to major in art is all because of this class I took in January 2003. Pure chance.

All my prints are very limited in edition. Some are one and done, others I make into a dozen or so. I usually am hungry to move on to my next idea. Even if I shoot the same or similar event nothing remains the same. A mountain looks different everyday. I am intuitively drawn towards places and events. After doing nothing more than capturing the moment I allow the darkroom to guide me in finding "the art." I believe that I have thus-far been very fortunate when it comes to selling my prints. As of now (2009) I have sold most of my prints right out of the darkroom. Often, I look at negatives or quick 4"x5" prints with interested parties and they choose which ones they would like.

Until November 2009 my photography has always been about the darkroom. The crisp black and white image has a artistic grace that color prints from commercial labs lack. I have refrained form digital photography as art until the end of 2009. I have always felt like someone got a piece of art if I hand made them a print in the dark room. Each one unique. The subtle details of differences between prints in a series made them more desirable to me, rather than less desirable because of their imperfection.

I basically divide my photography into three sections; Black & white film, color film, & digital both color, and black & white.

I define digital photography as an image made by or processed with a computer and printed from a machine. I'm still discovering what I like about digital photography. Sometimes it still feels like cheating.