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I have had an affinity for photography since I was 9 years old and received my first camera; a Kodak x15 instamatic. I remember the thrill of taking pictures and then mailing the film to be developed waiting with such anticipation for the prints to be mailed back. Polaroid cameras offered instant processing as well as instant gratification as an image would appear soon after the click of the shutter, how exciting! The digital age has combined the best elements of both creative control and instant gratification allowing me as a photographer to be completely immersed in the creative moment of capturing and expressing my perception of a moment in time.

All the world may be a stage but life is a movie reel, a series of moments stitched together creating our reality. A photograph captures, documents and preserves a particular moment and all that encompasses it. Since the early days of civilization mankind has been documenting their life and the moments that create it. The most precious times of our lives we preserve with the snap of a shutter creating a photograph so that we may return to a moment in time and relive both the time and the emotion we felt.

Art is an expression. Every picture I create as an art form is associated with a particular emotion or feeling I am experiencing at the moment I press the shutter release on my camera. My photographs become a vehicle for that expression. The greatest reward
is when someone is moved by a photograph of mine and I know that in some fashion a dialogue has taken place.