Introduction

I fell in love with photography as a child. After receiving a Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera for Christmas, I became fascinated with the visual world. Learning to see became my passion, then my lifelong quest, and I have never looked back.

For me, photography is many things: a means of interacting more deeply with the world, a path of personal growth and transformation, a challenge to strive toward becoming more whole and attentive, a catalyst for stimulating creative expression, and a vehicle for insight and understanding. Photography can be an inner practice that leads you more fully into a rich engagement with the world and a platform for sharing your questions, observations, and discoveries. It’s a way of light and a way of ...

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