photographer
photographer
I had spent most of my life as a musician: writing, recording and touring worldwide. I'd seen many places throughout the world and had taken very many photos while touring, but only with a simple point and shoot camera. Over time I realized that I wanted to be a viable photographer - to learn the ins and outs of manual photography and edit the photos digitally in my own way. So, I launched into photography and began presenting my work under the name Open Ended Drift Photography occasionally at an art exhibit here and there and online. Please enjoy a little snippet of my work here, or for a more in-depth representation head over to www.openendeddrift.com.
lifestyle
Lifestyle photography may be my favorite style of presentation. It helps that I feel fortunate enough to somehow always be surrounded by so many subjects so worthy of documentation. But I feel, we could all say that. It's a beautiful thing to look around you and find the sometimes near hidden seedling of art in the way our scenes unfold. Minute details in the layout of subject and foreground and background and beyond and the colors that call to us and coordinate so well.
NATURe
Nature photography seems so easy sometimes - all of the hard work has already been done over the millennia of evolution and change. It's almost as if it's more about putting yourself in the right position to capture all that hard work. Photography has a way of forcing you to get out there and travel more, for that rare opportunity to photograph something a little more beyond. I'm in love with the natural world and have been for as long as I can remember. It's beauty, variety and synergy is just calling out to be shot.
CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY
Being a performer myself and spending countless hours on stages, backstage, in green rooms and in VIP areas, I've found shifting into the photographer role in these settings was a seamless transition. It takes a careful, attentive awareness to be so close to the artists while they're baring their souls in front of large audiences and not be in the way or throw them off their game. Large stage productions have so many moving parts and being vigilantly aware of this while not interfering with the vibe is the most important aspect - i think - of concert photography. That and a good light show, make for some pretty solid photographs.
