Myself

"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph" - Matt Hardy

I started my journey as an artist through the eyes of a painter.  I painted my way through life for years before I picked up a camera.  I still paint and appreciate the life I create with a brush but there is something to clicking the shutter closed through a lens.  I learned to see as a photographer while drawing and painting.  In order to understand how to create on a canvas an artist must understand how to see.  This is the difference between drawing a stick figure and a portrait.  A child learns to see in 3d, learns how to touch a face through lines, and by gaining this knowledge is opened to the world of realism.  By learning how to "see" I learned how to be a photographer.  When I first picked up a camera it was a 35mm beautiful piece of ancient history.  I composed my work through the lens and compared the print to how I would have painted the image.  I noticed it was much the same.  When I started wedding photography I did not set out to make a great shot, I set out to make the composition a piece of art.  Every time my shutter closes it is an intention to beautify the world.  Each print has a voice and my goal is to hear the voice to create pleasing pieces.