Art kindles the flame within.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels,
in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

The question is not what you look at,
but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
Cornell Capa

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman

Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorthea Lange

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
Dorthea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorthea Lange

Artist's Statement

I’m drawn to patterns, details, texture.  Intimacy.  The intimacy that exists in veins of leaves, sunlight tracing the grain of a pebble, the edges of water ripples.  Paint chips. Dust motes.  Shreds of feathers.  Ice.  
 
There is a universe within each element.
 
I use macro techniques often – not to make objects abstracted and unreal, but to show that they are as familiar as the contours of a friend’s face.  I know a photo is nearing a finished state when it evokes a feeling of remembrance, as if it shows something from childhood that you had forgotten.
 
I am drawn to the allure of the everyday, but the everyday is not mundane.  It is, instead, rich; palpable; complete in itself.  New eyes are needed to see your surroundings authentically, however.  If you are patient enough to value each breath, then you will be gifted with life lessons from anything that happens to surround you.