But I love taking a concept (maybe a favorite one of yours), and then letting the hair and make up artists go to TOWN and create something outrageous and unique.  I also love taking it a step further in Photoshop and letting the Wacom tablet do its thing.  Below is model Alex Jane.

My friend Jennifer always told me that something she appreciated about my photos (both in concerts and studio type shots) is that I had this innate sense of timing, I knew right when to click the button to get the perfect photo.  I never really noticed it until she pointed it out.  This photo of model Lacy Lou, great fun to work with.

The rest of the portraits I’ve done can be seen here (or you can find them anytime by clicking “Gallery” in the menu above!)

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For me, photography is pure instinct.  Photos just pour out of my camera so naturally, I just “get” composition.  The first camera I used was a low resolution digital camera.  In fact, this is one of my earliest images:

Later I just brought my camera with me everywhere and shot images such as the following:

And later I met with the challenge of live concert photography, one of my favorite niches!

But I never thought I was particularly good at all these images I was capturing until people kept telling me how much they loved my photos.  So, in order to appease the masses I got myself all professional equipment and started taking random photos, for school plays, for the Chapman Panther, for The Vixen Kabarett, student film sets, fashion, and most recently, boudoir and pin up.

At the end of the day the thing that keeps me going are the infinite options, infinite memories to capture.  I love taking that image that will make you put your hand to your mouth and smile, because it captured a moment/personality so perfectly.