My development as a photographer is deeply intertwined with my exploration of the American landscape. I have continually found myself, during my travels, drawn the sublime, spiritual, and healing aspects of nature. There are moments, when fully immersed in nature, that can renew the spirit, where the problems of everyday life seem to fade away. These moments can present themselves with surprising frequency when one opens themselves up to it, and my work seeks to translate that feeling into imagery, a tradition rooted to the Romantics.

My lens, in the end, is an emotional tool, organizing light and form to capture the feeling of a place in time. Gestalt principles seemed to ride parallel as I explored composition; seeking the balance of foreground/background relationships, giving the subject its context within the greater whole. I frequently employ a telephoto lens for my work, helping to compress subjects against their respective backgrounds.

My work as a studio photographer instilled a penchant for precise color and lighting relationships with image’s edit becoming a tonal puzzle to unlock. Avoiding reliance on post-processing manipulation of color and light to "fix" an image, a method that often invokes that uncanny valley effect on the viewer, I seek evocative qualities of light in the field and hone that quality in the editing room.

Recurring motifs in my work include textual abstraction, foreground/background relationships, monolithic features in nature, color and tonal relationships, and atmospheric depth.

While carrying out my work in the varied wildernesses and natural areas, I practice leave-no-trace principles and continually work to better understand the lands I explore both geologically and culturally. My work aims to serve as a witness for the transformative power nature can impart on the individual who reveres it, and to serve as a reminder for the continual need to maintain its protection and conservation lest it disappear under our watch.