I am a self taught photographer who loved taking pictures growing up. One of my joys is learning and meeting new people. I intend to share captured images through the medium of photography in much the same way that writers, painter, poets, and musicians seek to evoke feelings and reactions through their respective media.The art of photography is a subtractive process, a distilling of reality into a personal vision. As such I often use the tools of modern photography – different lens, filters, digital enhancement – to try to capture in an image the emotions I felt at the moment I tripped the camera’s shutter.Fred Ritchin, author and president of pixelpress once wrote, “Photography too often confirms preconceptions and distances us from more nuanced realities. The people in the frame are often depicted as too foreign, to exotic, or simply too different to be easily understood.” While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
I hope to see you on my journey