About the Work

I started out taking polaroid pictures of bull riders coming out the shoot at the state fair in Albuquerque, NM. While in high school I studied 35mm color and B/W (Black/White) photograhy, when I served in the US Coast Guard one of my duties was to snap as many frames as I could using a Nikon 35mm with 140 frames while the HC130 I was on dove from 25,000 feet to 60, 100 feet above the deck of a foriegn fishing vessel. I would snap as many B/W's as I could and then we would head back to Kodiak Air Station, Kodiak, AK to have the 35mm film developed. Thats how justice was served in International waters. I have since realized in order to take a good image there must be an element of danger involved. Of course that is not always the case, however every now an then danger has a way of working into a shot. My images are a snap shot of a moment in time. A time that happened and will never happen again. A photographic record of a time and place when time simply stood still.