The soul of my style is cinema. To me, a great photograph is a portal to a feeling, a place, a time - as though one breath of life, one daring foot crossed over the threshold, could press play on a great adventure. 

Looking up in awe from the burgundy velvet seats of my local dollar theater, I spent my youth in a hundred lands. I loved and lost, cheered, and cried. What I remember most is believing. Great storytellers allowed me to explore the worlds they created long after I left the theater. Cinematographers like Thomas Del Ruth (Stand by Me), Anthony B. Richmond (The Sandlot), and John Toll (Elizabethtown) reflected a feeling of home back to me while Philippe Rousselot (Big Fish & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Donald McAlpine (Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe & Peter Pan) undoubtedly taught me to value the whimsical, to treasure the fantastic. 

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The heart of my work begins with the vast freedoms of the open road. The thrill of finding your way anywhere and everywhere.

Raised on the highways and byways of middle America, endless miles mesmerized by the changing scenery, I knew it was magic starting the day in one world and stepping out that night somewhere entirely different. The soundtrack of my life on the road was stories told over the chorus of my parents' cassette tapes. The taste, early morning red Gatorade and mini chocolate donuts then midafternoon suppers at roadside diners. The smell of my father's strong black coffee and my mom's hairspray. Passing cars alive with characters destined for here and there. The glow of street lamps pulsing into the backseat as a I drifted to sleep at night. The comforting dance of telephone wires going all the same places as me.

All of it, every drop of sight and sound, shows itself in my photographs.