A little bit about Me

My love of photography began in 6th grade, with camera I “borrowed” from Dad. After many years of playing around with photography as a hobby, I began a decade of exploration into how I might make a living with it. I originally tried landscape photography because I really do love being outside and traveling around exploring wild places. I eventually gave up on that dream after a few years of having magazine editors tell me depressing things like, “Wow that photo is so beautiful, we’d like to use it as a double page spread in our magazine and we’ll even pay you $100 for it.”

Eventually I was invited to shoot pictures at my sister’s wedding, which went very well and I realized that not only did I really enjoy it, but I actually got paid decent money.

That first encounter with wedding photography slowly led to more and more jobs until before long I realized that I could actually pay my bills doing this. At that time I was working part time as a Biology substitute teacher in the winter and as a rafting guide in the summer. In the fall of 2000 I became a father to a wonderful little guy named Jade. Being a dad suddenly encouraged me to quit playing around and get more serious about making a living at this photography business.

The pictures I loved and showed off in my slideshows featured nature and adventure themes so it’s no real surprise that Couples who aligned with those themes would hire me, and they did! Lots of them did!

Along the way, that camera has taken me along on some amazing adventures.

Today I’m taking up the cameras again with the goal of splitting my time between weddings and Real Estate photography.

I’ve found that I really enjoy the quiet and the slow pace of Real Estate photography, and the challenges of creating something artistic are very similar to my original love of landscape photography.

If you have need of commercial or real estate images, I would love to work with you.

Simply fill out the form in the link above and I’ll get back to you ASAP.