| I create photographs in order to satisfy a very basic need to communicate with others through art. The process of seeking out a subject and creating an image can be challenging, frustrating, sometimes disappointing, but ultimately rewarding. My goal is always to create an image that reflects my vision and imagination, and communicates my feelings about the subject to the viewer.
The camera allows me to capture what I am seeing and feeling at a time and place. Its rendering may be literal or abstract, but the photograph is the means by which I am able to communicate those feelings to the viewer. Color and texture motivate me. They attract me to a subject. But it is the light that defines those things and allows the camera to render what is in front of its lens. The camera allows me to paint with color, light and texture to create a feeling and a world that is uniquely my own.
I have always loved art. I love the moods, the textures, the light, and the colors of great painting. But there is something even more special for me about a photograph. It is both real and imaginary. It is an image of something that exists, but at the same time represents a world that can exist completely in the mind of the photographer.
Very often a scene will attract my attention, but the light and time of day is not right. I like to work a subject by returning to it at a different hour, and under different conditions in order to capture the image that I want. At other times something simply presents itself and demands to be photographed. What gives me the most satisfaction though is to use the light to paint an image on the film or the sensor that brings what I see in my mind to the viewer.
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