My first and only photography class was basic photography my senior year of college. I had already been accepted to medical school when I took that class. If that weren't the case, my life would have taken a much different direction. Traveling and photography have often provided much needed rejuvenation from my training and life as a physician. I spend nearly all of my professional life interacting with people, sick and often angry people. Nature photography is a chance to glimpse and record solitude and beauty. There have been far too few perfect moments when season, light, sky, subject and my presence have coincided. This portfolio contains many of those moments. Particularly the photos of Silver Mill in Colorado and Mabry Mill in Virginia were moments where everything came together for fractions of a second of peace and perfection. It is that peace and beauty that I crave and crave to record with my photography. I find it somewhat sad that I seem to experience this peace best throught the lens of a camera, yet it is that razor sharp attention to specific subject that also focuses my mind. Over the past 10 years I have become slowly more proficient at recording what is before my lens. I hope this is only the beginning of a long journey.
