“Before I started shooting business portraiture, I shot travel work by traveling around the world for an adventure travel company. From that, I began shooting sports images for magazines – all the while developing a large stock file. When I began shooting portraiture for corporations and magazines, I continued using lifestyle stock as my outlet for that side of me that wanted to stay outside. It’s been a great outlet, and I’ve continued to develop that side of my work. I recently have begun to bring it into the fold of my portraiture – using more available light and taking people into the landscape. Getting these two sides of my work to collide has been a good thing for me creatively.

Now, the work I’m doing for stock has been developed out of self assignments that I’ve been working on from more of a project basis. Instead of saying - I’m going to go out and shoot someone biking - I’ve been following themes for a series of shoots. Recently that has led me to shoot images related to fatherhood – not the typical things that society expects fathers to be doing, but the mundane reality around modern day fathers. They too are taking their daughters to ballet class, going to the grocery store and the Laundromat with the kids. And, as a father, I’ve always photographed my own kids and their lives – something I want to do more of as a means of exercising my creativity while spending time with them.

I still generate a lot of stock with my corporate work – looking at office environments the same way I would approach a outdoor landscape – looking for the humor in the mundane.”

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