Genesis
I’m conscious photography is a medium that will long outlive me. I see myself as someone who contributes to the pantheon of photography available online. Photography as a medium allows people to see the world in a more creative light, it allows me to express my worldview from a unique perspective, sometimes even from myself. Every time I pick up my camera I intend to capture something that inspires and awes others as others have awed and inspired me. It took me years of discipline and practice to know how I might do that and even still I’m aware I’m very much a novice.
Having said that, writing this I am more creatively capable than I have ever been. Knowing I have as much to learn as I do I’m humbled to remember all that I’ve learned since I started. The earliest memory I have in my photography odyssey was taking a camera through the botanical gardens in Brisbane, Australia in 2010.
Since that day I can recall having used my tripod to steady me as I wade through knee deep freezing water at sunrise. I’ve climbed mountains at midnight to capture the stars from the clearings at the peak. I’ve fought the cognitive dissonance of creative perfectionism as well as the hypothermic conditions in Iceland. I’ve gone days without sleep i the pursuit to execute in my field and I’ve worked to the point of exhaustion for my clients.
These are the side effects of a decade’s long obsession with chasing the same peace I found in the Botanical Gardens back in 2010. I remember aiming the barrel of my lens down a row of trees, snapping the trigger and looking at the image to be delighted by the symmetry on the screen, being woken up from a dream I was no longer somnambulant. Like an addict I fell for the high of it all, unlike an addict I went on to experience greater highs than the initial trip. Even in knee deep freeing water watching the sun rise, Climbing mountains in the dead of night or fighting off hypothermia under the northern lights.
The amity I experience within myself is what motivates me to explore the world and capture it as I see it, this portfolio and gallery is the result of feeding that addiction. The images are [hopefully] how you benefit from it.
