About

Chasing old barns and dark skies

I was born and raised in Houston, and I've loved photography for about as long as I can remember. It started with whatever cameras I could get my hands on: 110 film cameras, disc cameras, and the instant magic of a Polaroid. In middle school, my father bought me my first film SLR. I was hooked, and I didn't put it down until I'd figured out how to use it.

I'm a self-taught photographer. Over the past 12-plus years I've been building my portfolio one trip at a time, learning through trial and error and from the work of photographers I admire, especially Trey Ratcliff and Richard Tatti. Along the way, the Flickr community has been a big part of my journey. It's connected me with photographers from all over the world, and I still learn something from them all the time.

Today I focus on landscape, wildlife and astrophotography, and most of my images are made in rural Texas. That's where I feel most at home behind the camera. I'm drawn to the things the countryside leaves behind: old barns, windmills, rusty farm equipment, dead trees, and old cars and trucks slowly giving way to the weather. Put one of them under a sky full of stars and I'm a happy photographer.

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