I'm a guy with many hats. a few too many hats, at times. But I'm livin' the dream. Many of my recent photos are pot-shots showcasing lighting setups from work. Dig a few pages deep for my old photojournalism and landscape work.

Photography

My folks told me they first put a disposable camera in my hands around age 6. Back then, I had an eye for people, capturing portraits of friends and family. As I worked through black and white film, my focus shifted to landscapes and nature.

Filmmaking

I spent a lot of my youth observing. People, places, but most commonly Film sets. It wasn't hard. I was a New York City kid and the market was booming. The fade-out of the setting golden sun would give way to the sterile, artificial duplication of sunlight blasting out of massive theatrical lamps temporarily placed on the rooftops. Slowly but surely the lighting crew would pan, tilt, adjust, gel, diffuse, add, subtract; shape the light, and night would look like day, on camera at least.

I would stand there, listen to the communications of the crew, watching them work. I didn't know then I would end up working with the sons and grandsons of those electricians, but I knew the manipulation of time through light was an amazing craft, and they were the finest craftsmen around.

In the mean time, now growing up in nearby Stamford, CT. I worked in every educational venue of technical theater there was. I learned stagecraft and discipline, dabbled in sound, and found my way back to lighting. I was taken by the medium, the ability to communicate mood, emotion and tone through the careful placement of light and shadow. I knew theater, given the audience's distance from the subjects, was not the best venue to talk with light. Then, 2008 saw Connecticut pass the most aggressive film and television tax credit on the east coast. The productions flooded in, and I found my start. Four years later, I have had the great pleasure of working on some of the finest (and not so finest) Television episodes, feature films, music videos and short films to be shot in New York, CT, Boston, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Emergency Medical Services

In the winter of 2011, I began pursuing an old interest in emergency medicine, enrolling in the Stamford Hospital's EMS institute to train as an Connecticut Emergency Medical Technician-Basic. I passed my National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Cognitive Examination on May 24th, 2011 and currently hold national certification and licensure in the state of Connecticut and North Carolina. Today, I average 12-36 hours a week functioning as an EMT with a paramedic partner on a county-based, career/paid EMS service that handles 75,000 calls a year across 650 square miles.