PHOTOGRAPHY is essential to my life. Lessons from my childhood taught me to deal with constant shift and change. I find it hard to stay in one spot for any extended span of time. I hate to say goodbye to people. I feel the ongoing need to make sure that people know that I am thinking of them and that I care for them. I learned to cherish all relationships. To see the good in them and not linger on the bad. Photograph fulfills these adapted needs in my life. Allowing me to capture, savor and reflect on moments in time that I will never have the opportunity to revisit. My camera allows me to hold onto moments lost, fleeting moments as I like to think of them. In reality all moments are fleeting. However the specific fleeting moments that I observe and mechanically capture define my photographic vision. My understanding of art, life and photogarphy has shifted, relatively dramatically, over the past seven years. Thousands of photographs and hundreds of drawings, paintings and collages have educated me to observe the world as I do today. It is my hope that I have progressed and am now creating artwork that is far more substantial than even what my work was a year ago though. Critical to my vision is to make work tomorrow that I feel is more successful than my work was today. As life is, this is all relative and dependant on proper balance of elements in my life. A balance of sunshine and rain one might say.