Foreword

When I started taking photos of my friends in high school back in 1975 (pictures that were the seventies’ equivalent to your average Facebook profile picture of today), I never thought for even a moment that as an adult I’d end up working as a professional fashion and portrait photographer. As I progressed through school, I started absorbing some of the theory that I was picking up in my photography classes, and then I caught the bug: a serious passion for photographing anything and everything.

Throughout my university years, I concentrated on becoming a full-time fine art photographer, shooting urban landscapes and edgy portraits of interesting people. It was then that a professor challenged me to combine my love of landscape and portraiture ...

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