I believe in Freedom of Speech & Freedom of expression. I believe every individual is entitled to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness. Anyone who believes in silencing or suppressing the right to free speech & expression is free to unfollow my page. I risked my life as a soldier to defend my country abroad, I refuse to come home to live as a slave to corporate oligarchs.

I'm a visual artist focused on communicating my vision through photography & graphics. ZEN MOUNTAIN MEDIA is my brand, Exploring the Art of Imagination is my philosophy!

I specialize in:

- Landscape Photography, artistic photo retouching, nature, animals & wildlife are the subjects I am passionate about photographing

- Graphic Design; compositing/photo manipulation, branding- logo design, business cards, t-shirts, posters, flyers & and other graphics

My goal is to highlight the subject's beauty & individual characteristics through various methods & tools to give each image a life of it's own for the viewer to experience, hence my philosophy, Exploring the Art of Imagination through ZEN MOUNTAIN MEDIA!

I am based in the Pacific Northwest and enjoy the variety of locations available to shoot, whether it's the mountains, forests, beaches, nature, animals & wildlife.

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”

– Terence McKenna

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” ...

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” ...

“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” ...

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

- Anonymous

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

― Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

- Alan Watts