Photo by Ever McSween (my 4 year old daughter)
I love making photos.
As a kid, I was the one with the Kodak Instamatic 20 dangling from his wrist. I was always fascinated by my grandmother's old photo albums. All those people, frozen in a moment in time. Your parents as kids, your grandparents as young men and women, and other people you never had the chance to meet all captured in a moment, it's humbling. I wanted to capture that. I wanted to freeze time.
My career as a camera nerd has taken me to nearly every state in the US and to multiple countries. I've dangled from a rescue helicopter over the Chesapeake Bay, broken the sound barrier from the backseat of a fighter jet, and watched in awe as the moon passed in front of the sun during a solar eclipse. Capturing these kinds of moments is a lot of fun, but what I've learned is that the most satisfying images to me, are of people.
Capturing people in candid moments, or revealing them to themselves in portraits requires patience, technique, and curiosity. When it all works, something special happens. You freeze a moment, but it's more than just a photo, it's a story. It's the story of that moment, for that person.
My family is my favorite subject to photograph. Here are a few recent moments.
