Seeing things differently…

My parents were convinced that I would end up in the sign business. Anytime we got in the car, I’d notice and comment on every sign that had burned out lights or some sort of damage.

Looking back now, I think what my parents observed was their young son seeing the world differently - picking up small, mostly unimportant details that aren’t on most people’s radar.

I got my first camera when I was 8 or so, mostly to take pictures around Cub Scout camp. In high school, as a member of yearbook staff, my interest in photography grew, but I spent far less time taking pictures than printing them. I quickly fell in love with the darkroom.

As it turns out, my parents were wrong about the sign business. I achieved my life’s ambition and became a DJ at the local roller rink when I was 13, which led to a career in radio. Through my late teens and twenties, I made a lot of Britney Spears songs fly through the air, all the while pestering the grizzled engineers who kept the stations on the air.

By 2005, I decided I’d heard enough bubblegum pop to last three lifetimes and moved full-time into the technical side of the radio business, buying my first camera of the digital era to document my studio building projects. That camera rekindled a love of photography that I had almost forgotten.

In recent years, more than a few friends have encouraged me to create a coffee table book of my offbeat style of photography. Someday, I may do just that.

In the meantime, please visit my Etsy shop, which features over 300 of my best images, which would love a new home on your wall.