I am a freelance photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area shooting mostly event and portrait photography with a creative eye, although I have plenty of experience shooting products and studio photography.

  I was exposed to photography at a young age by my father as photogrpahy was his favorite hobby.  He loved to put on slide shows of Kodachromes he captured of our family and I was instantly captivated by the larger than life images and the vibrant colors. Besides being a potato farmer, my grandfather on my mother’s side was  also a photographer who  mostly photographed weddings and  local school portraits  which he then processed and printed in a  makeshift darkroom he built in his barn. 

  My first camera was a 35mm hand-me-down Pentax ME Super I got in my early teens and I  graduated  from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in Photography in 1997.
  After getting my degree I spent several years  printing in traditional color darkrooms at high-end photo labs which provided further technical insight into  my craft while also  giving me access to professional printing and scanning equipment as well as a behind the scenes look at the work of local Bay Area photographers who’s work I was printing and scanning long before  online portfolios became the norm. 

  Currently I enjoy putting my knowledge and years of photographic experience to work capturing images that best express my creativity, my client’s vision, or that document  life’s moments  in a both a journalistic and visually poetic way.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my site. I hope you enjoyed my work.

   For my latest projects you can follow me on  Instagram  and if you’d like to see what my creative work looks like on various products  please visit my Society 6 store.