My father gifted me one of his spare Nikons, an FM2, when I was 10 years old, growing up in a small mill town in northeastern North Carolina. Back then summers were spent exploring the wilderness along the Roanoke River and the countryside of the rural south or roaming the Wyoming countryside with my mother's family. Less then a year after I was handed my first camera I was processing my own film and making prints before earning my first byline for a story/picture package of a middle school basketball game on January 9, 1992. 

Over the ensuing decades, I’ve worked in newspapers across the country amassing over 100 awards from collegiate, state, and national journalism/photojournalism institutions.

I am an alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop 2001.

My father and grandfather before me were newspapermen. Collectively my family has over a century of experience in the newspaper profession from the plains and midwest, to the south, and back again to American West.

Today, I work as a freelance photojournalist and writer with a wide variety of knowledge and skill. My degree is in commercial photography with an emphasis on essay and portraiture. I work in a variety of digital and film formats, including large and medium formats, infrared, and in-camera multiple exposures. I have video and broadcast media experience.

This archive is for my family, Jeana, Wilson, Stella, and our little boy Milo, so they may be proud.

All are welcome here. Thanks for noticing.

Resumé is available upon request.