My interest in photography started as a child in the 1960’s, pretending to take pictures with my grandmother’s Kodak Duaflex II camera. In my teens, I converted the family bathroom into a darkroom, dodging and burning black & white images from my Yashica TL-Electro 35mm camera. Stationed in Europe as a young soldier in the early 1980’s, I traveled extensively with my trusty Olympus OM-1.

Today I prefer to use compact mirrorless digital cameras with customizable film simulations. These cameras allow me to easily create my vision by producing nearly straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) images which require little, or no post-processing at all. Rarely will I leave the house without a camera in-hand.

“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.”

-Robert Doisneau

While I normally shoot in digital format, I find myself enjoying film once again. With a love for vintage cameras, you could find me shooting large format on a 4×5 press camera one day, medium format on a waist level TLR the next, or 35mm on a fully manual rangefinder the day after. I’ve come full circle, as I’m back in the darkroom developing my own film again, whether it be large, medium, or 35mm format.