Originally from Tennessee, I’ve lived or been just about everywhere, if you’re reading this in the US, chances are I’ve been in your area. I’ve called Idaho home for almost 20 years and the small mountain community of Salmon, Idaho my hometown, that’s where I went to high school, got married and I still have a lot of friends and family there, visit every chance I get. My wife and I have lived in the Boise area for 8 years, it’s as much home as any large city can be.
As you’ve probably guessed by now by reading this site, I’m a photographer ( <— see required self portrait ) more about that in a moment. I also work as a Systems Engineer/Sys-admin (mainly Linux these days), my background is in telecommunications both government and private, but I’m well versed in all things tech. I started working for the government when I was 15, originally as a web developer, managing a public facing website, which oddly required that I take a lot of photos. Within a year I was working in telecommunications, which is one of my specialties. Over the years I’ve done a lot of small business IT consulting, which I also enjoy, I still work with a few clients, but Photography takes up most of my time and running one small business is quite enough.
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a camera, one of my earlier memories is taking photos with a 110 camera, I vividly remember the sound it made with the shutter release and film winding with the thumb tab on the bottom. Years later, I was the Yearbook Editor my senior year of High School (photo editor my junior year), I always had a camera with me and access to a good dark room to do most of my own developing. I was always shooting, in school I’d be shooting people, sports, team shots, candids, whatever. After school and in the summers I was shooting for the government as part of my job running a public information website, mostly journalistic shots. After high school and after leaving that job, I boxed myself into being just a landscape photographer. I shoot mostly landscape and nature. Sure, I’d shoot journalistic, commercial or other stuff as required, and on occasion I’d shoot a portrait. But, I was a nature guy.
Over the past few years, I’ve realized just how much I enjoy shooting outside of the landscape and nature box and have been focusing more on Portraits, a bit of commercial, model portfolios and my favorite, concept photography. I still shoot and sell landscape and nature photographs but no longer am I specialized just in that area, now I shoot just about anything and enjoy working with light in a variety of ways.
If you’ve found my site via google or following me on twitter, stick around and check out some of the photos on this site or in my gallery. If you’re looking for a photographer, contact me for more information about my services.
