Photography has always been a fixture in my life.  Growing up my grandparents and mom were always taking pictures. As a child I loved looking at the photographs and hearing the stories behind the photos.  From photographs I learned family and local history but it was also where I would see and hear stories about faraway places, cultures and previous generations.

I received my first camera when I was around the age 3, it was a Fisher-Price Kodak Kids Camera (110 film).  I took the camera everywhere I went, I loved taking pictures.  As I got older, my cameras got more advanced.   I got my first Canon camera when I was in high school – my Mom told me always trust a Canon camera because it had our last name on it, that was something that always stuck with me and to this date I always use a Canon camera.

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Photography Tidbits

Overall my photography falls into four genres: Travel, Street, Nature/Landscape and Animals. Additionally,  I am deeply interested in photography history and theory.

The major focus and goal of my photography is to document the world in which I live.

Canon is my camera body of choice.  I have a collection of lens from both Canon and Sigma, which I use regularly.

Most editing is done using Adobe software.  DxO Optic Pro is a close runner up.

Philosophy on Photography 

Photography is an art, science and way to preserve time.

As an art, photography is median through which people express themselves, albeit from the front of the camera or behind the shutter.  No one photographer sees a subject in the same away.  A photograph can be straightforward or it can abstract.

Photography is the science of recording light.   Through the use of equipment (camera, lens, filters) the scientist (aka photographer) captures light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation and then processes what has been captured through use of software or chemicals.

The results of photography: the negative, electric file or the print, are ways we preserve fragments of time, making a photograph a historic record.  Photographs become evidence of past events and help society to remember people, events and locations.