I love images. I am drawn to light and shadows on a film screen or a still print. I am fascinated by the choice of a composition and I can be drawn into an image believing I am part of that scene.

I am like most other people I meet in this business. I have a passion for light and design. I believe you have to in order to compete with the quality of artist that are out there. I have loved photography as far into my youth as I can remember. My parents gave me cameras and film no matter how I misbehaved. They most probably thought it was a great distraction for me and would be a hobby, as I got older and enter a real profession. Little did they know they were feeding an addiction.

For my academia portfolio, I have a Photography Fine Arts Degree from Brooks Institute of Photography and a Masters in Business from University of Dallas. In my life history, I served in The United States Marine Corps, gaining from experiences every man should have and others no man should have. I am married to a woman who is thrice my equal, I have a daughter that is twice my equal, and a son who offers me every challenge. These three indeed complete me, inspire me and are God's very blessing to me.

I started my photography career as a technician. I spent years on the cameras? buttons whistles and bells. I took every light apart and mastered the electronics, switches and contacts. I was doing still photography to master the quality and quantity of my tools. I was testing for models in the exact sense of the word. New models and friends were testing their comfort in front of the lens; I was testing my lights, gels and diffusions to see just what they did. I could use any piece of equipment, and every technology. All of this got me a lot of work creating other peoples ideas onto film. For my art, however, I developed a disconnect. For me it started to become how to get to an image rather than what the image was.

So I started doing images just for the sake of art. Some shoots are a lot of fun and we create some very compelling images, some are a lot of fun and the images may not be so great. But I always seem to walk away treasuring the experience.