"…It's the world I know"
~Collective Soul

I recently returned from my deployment to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom and I'm eager to do what I love again.

I've served the Army & Navy for several years.

I've been stationed in Germany,
Ft. Benning, San Diego & currently reside in Missouri.

I've been deployed a few times including Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Indonesia and most recently Iraq.

While deployed in Somalia, Africa I took with me a small, personal hand-held camcorder and videotaped images from everyday life as a soldier to local scenery. I remember recording still images of trees, wildflowers, local village life and local landscapes and I remember how captivating it was for me.

And while serving for the Navy I captured exciting and exhilarating moments of jets and helicopters landing and taking off from carriers and oilers.

To see those images captured in time rekindles my flame inside. I can remember what I saw. But to be able to share those fragments of time with other people it elates my soul.

I have vacationed in Hawaii, Italy and Greece. I took some very nice shots in Rome, Florence and Venice. But the best pictures I liked were the ones from Greece in Athens, Delphi and Santorini.
(See my travel pics.)

I've worked as a family portrait photographer but all the kicking, screaming, running around and all the tantrums can be exhausting…and that's just the parents! (Just kidding!) Working with children can be difficult. Most were well-behaved. But, most of parents insist portraits of their children with smiling faces...But, sometimes children don't want their portraits taken...Children have their own personalities too...