Once upon a time, I wanted to be a fashion photographer. After falling in love with the works of Herb Ritts, Philip Dixon and Peter Lindberg I was on a mission! I taught myself the basics of photography and a year later, by some bizarre twist of fate I won a scholarship to The School of Visual Arts in NYC.  While in school and pursuing fashion dreams I realized three things.

• I...really didn't give a damn about clothes, designers, pink being the new black, who's fabulous, what's fierce or whatever they were force feeding this season..

• People in the fashion industry seem to think that they are truly making a valued contribution to the world. C'mon folks... we're talking  about pic...tur...es...of...........................clothes. Yer not curing cancer.

• I really just wanted to see pretty girls take their clothes  - OFF.
  Not put more - ON. Let's get honest here.

In my second year at S.V.A. I scored an assistant photographer gig working on Playboy shoots. I was making money, traveling and learning far more on the job that in the classroom. I worked under Gen Nishino and Debbee May for three years. Eventually, I grew tired of dealing with NYC’s winters so I packed up and relocated to Los Angeles.

As far as photo-geek stuff… I’m not a big techie. I love toys as much as the next guy but I prefer to keep things simple and with out too many complications.
Most of my shoots are pure improv...

In summation, I’m just a big dork who takes pictures of things…

BTW, this pic of me was testing a rim light (I hate rim lights) I'm not trying to be a model by any stretch. It just happened to fit the need here. ;-)