If you start feeling it’s easier to stay inside where it’s warm and dry, that’s the time to head out the door and embrace the pain and suffering.

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If you think my style fits your project, get in touch. Working together will bring a unique depth to our collaboration. Your patient observation, allowing moments to unfold naturally rather than forcing them, will create a subtle yet powerful narrative in each frame. It’s a reminder that photography, at its core, is not just about taking pictures, but about being present, observing with intention, and giving space for meaning to emerge—one frame at a time.

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Education

We’re all at difference places on our respective photographic journeys - get to where I am and beyond by learning from my successes and failures. My style of photography mirrors the principles of Zen—patient, mindful, and rooted in presence. Stay quiet and approach each shot with a sense of openness, allowing the world to reveal itself rather than forcing an image. It means embracing simplicity, focusing on the essence of the moment without attachment to perfection. Like the Zen practice of "just sitting," I like to encourage a deep awareness of the surroundings, emphasizing that true beauty lies in the subtle details and fleeting moments that often go unnoticed. In this way, photography becomes not just a technical skill, but a practice of mindfulness, where each click of the shutter is a quiet act of being fully in the moment.

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“shoot how it feels” is a simple concept, but the execution is all in the details. embrace the pain, be out there when others have made the decision to stay safe and comfortable.

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Finding Zen in Photography

Zen Buddhism has profound implications in photography, encouraging a deeper connection to the present moment and an appreciation for simplicity, stillness, and mindfulness. Rooted in the principles of quiet observation and non-attachment, it invites the photographer to let go of preconceived notions and allow the subject to reveal itself naturally, without force.

My approach to photography is less about capturing "perfect" images and more about attuning oneself to the subtle beauty in everyday life—the patterns of light, the impermanence of nature, and the quiet elegance of ordinary moments. True mastery of the craft is not in controlling the scene, but in being fully present and receptive to what is happening before the lens. In this way, Zen philosophy fosters a sense of presence and awareness, where each shot becomes an act of mindfulness, and the resulting images reflect a deeper, almost meditative truth about the world around us.

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WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

  • “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”

    - Don McCullin

  • “It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.”

    - Sebastiao Salgado

  • “Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.”

    - William Klein