I left my hometown in New Jersey in 2007 for what I thought would be a couple years. But here I am, more than a decade later, happily living and working on the west coast. I met my wife in 2015 who shared the love for the outdoors and I knew she was the one.

I spent a chunk of time living in major cities on the west coast. I moved around a bit before finally settling in Portland in 2018.

I have been photographing Mother Nature since I was 8 years old. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to hardworking parents. Earth has so much beauty to offer. When I was 8 years old, I got my first camera; a disposable Kodak.

It was after a trip to Bar Harbor, Maine, that I fell in love with photography. Every trip after that, I had a camera with me each time my parents took me and my siblings on vacation. I got my first DSLR in 2010 and haven’t stopped loving being out in nature with a camera.

I still remember how excited I got when I was going in to pick up my processed film and and couldn’t wait to look through the photos.

In 2009, I bought a Canon AE-1 and began shooting film. Processing your own images is a whole different experience from a digital camera. There is no feeling like opening the tank after that final wash, unrolling a bit of film, and seeing an image; an actual physical image that I put there by exposing and developing the film. It’s a sensation of which I never tire, and that no digital camera or computational process can emulate.