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When I was younger I liked to draw pictures, so I was always sketching, doodling, and making marks on just about everything. In high school I would create weird characters for stories I wanted to write, and my college notebooks have more scratches than actual notes.
Then I picked up my first DSLR. It seemed a perfect fit, because I never really had the patience to be an accomplished draftsman. The camera became an extension of myself with which to doodle my ideas. I photographed things so I could draw things the way I saw them — and then eventually, I didn’t do the drawing anymore.
When I began my aviation degree it was back to doodling on paper, but this time it was of larger images. I was learning how to construct pictures by drawing them before I shot them. I found myself thinking about a new and strange way to “make” pictures instead of simply reacting to what was happening around me. I was, through the notes I took at Mountain View College, learning to control my pictures and beginning to create the very types of images that had for so long eluded me.
I am now living in Grand Prairie, TX and I continue to practice the photographic approach that my sketches have brought me. I like to create surreal storybook scenes and be patient with those scenes — soon the subject will arrive. I have also learned to watch a subject and sketch in the scene around them to add context and depth to the photographs.