After eighteen years, I graciously walked away from corporate life with a smile on my face and a vision of my future. My first order of business was buying a new camera. The next chapter had begun.
When my images elicit deep, joyful tears from mothers, fathers, and grandparents, I experience the kind of high that tells me there’s nothing else in the world I should be doing. When the response to my work is anything less than profound, I feel like a failure. If you don’t fall in love, I fall apart.
Okay, I’m being overly dramatic but the fact is that I am a classic perfectionist when it comes to my art. Ten years as a marketing and communications executive taught me how to be a pro in that regard. Falling in love and becoming a parent taught me how to be a pro behind the lens.
I believe that our true essence emerges when we are in familiar and comfortable surroundings with trust and wonder existing in equal parts. You cannot force or rush a moment. You cannot fool a child.
I carry a small piece of everyone I shoot (human and animal), with me forever. I hope that their experience with me is as impactful and inspiring.
Sometimes our greatest gifts and most genuine talents are those we discover a bit later in life.