Thanks for stopping by. Hopefully, you're here to find images of someone, someplace or something you hold dear. If so, I hope I've captured them well.

Someone once told me that photography wasn't "art" in the same way paintings or sculptures are. Certainly photography "captures" it's subject as it exists at that moment. Whereas other art forms often start from nothing...a blank canvas, lump of clay, block of marble...photography starts with something.

Art is certainly an expression of imagination...of "seeing" something that's possible and then rendering it to media. Whether abstract or a literal interpretation, you could say that art is the product of one's imagination...what they see converted into something others can see (sometimes).

But the art of photography is actually a reflection of the art that IS the subject. God's creations of humans or nature can not be considered anything short of art. And even mechanical or architectural subjects were wrought at the hands of an "artist"...be they a builder, a fabricator or other laborer.

So photography is the art of capturing life in the moment, with the broadest definition of "life". And that life-in-the-moment as rendered to film (or sensor) requires creativity, judgment, technical execution and yes, imagination...to see something that might not be readily apparent. Whereas painting and sculpture begins with nothing, photography often starts with too much...and requires narrowing the perspective to a singular point of attention, of focus. (A close up photo of hands held in prayer doesn't require seeing the surroundings to communicate the intimacy of that "moment".)

So photography's art comes from it's ability to stop time and reflect someone else's art...God or man, and hopefully does it in a truthful, creative and inspiring way.

Each photograph is a moment in time...a singular moment never to be exactly duplicated. So, every photograph is an original. If that's not art, I don't know what is.