For most of my life I was a musician. I toured with a few name acts all over the world. Then I found myself in L.A. doing music for television commercials. If you take anything you love and make it your job,.. it becomes your job. So while I will always love music and playing guitar, I discovered that a big part of the thrill I used to get writing and producing music I began to get from photography. And since I’m a rocker I tend to go for things that have an edge. I started with some camera knowledge, but not much really. I prefer to learn by doing – that is how I learned guitar as well. My first shots were done with a little 5 megapixel Canon Elph and a floorlamp which I would lean into the subject – and a few of those are still here in the site, side by side with full frame/full-res work.
It’s been a 10 years but I still feel new. I hope that brings a freshness to everything I do. I discover something new on almost every shoot, but I take it all very seriously as well. I understand that I have clients that need their wishes fulfilled, and if they’re going to hire me I should be prepared to fulfill those wishes (as I did working for decades with Ad Agencies). I’m not the type of photographer that shows up wondering what he’s going to shoot. I believe in pre-production and planning and I care about everything in the frame, not only the subject.
My ‘secret fetish’ is beauty, and I absolutely love bringing that out in the people I shoot. I’ve done covers and pictorials for both mainstream and adult magazines, and recently became a regular contributor to Penthouse.
My photography hero is Francesco Scavullo who loved women and knew exactly how to hrlp them be the most beautiful they could be.
