Looking at Life & Love
Through the Lens of Time...

I grew up in San Francisco in a family of 12…we were joyful, chaotic, close – and we captured our times together in pictures.  I used to love looking at those photographs.  In a curious way, they made me feel as though I could live in the Past and the Present at the same time, and the memories they triggered made our family bond seem Timeless.

One day I noticed that the last album ended when I was about 5 or 6 years old, and I wondered, “Why did it stop here?  Did life get too hectic, less romantic?”  Maybe we were just so swept away by the pressures of daily life that we were forgetting to cherish present moments?  I thought to myself, "This has to be wrong."  And I began documenting my family's life.

Photography became a passion for me.  I didn't take pictures for work, I took pictures to capture Life and Love.  But I didn't see pictures, though; I saw moments in Time.  You can keep pictures, but precious moments in our lives can slip away unrecorded...

Amazing pictures aren't composed as often as they seem to simply materialize before our eyes.  Many photographers spend their life making art.  I want to spend mine capturing art as it happens.  Life – true romance, true passion, true joy, true color... this is my art.

Time is life's most precious commodity, and while it isn't something I can give to my clients, I can help them remember their best times in pictures.  As deeply troubled as he was, Van Gogh instinctively saw art as an expression of love for others: “…a good picture is equivalent to a kind deed.”  This is my perspective and my passion, and it is my pleasure to share it with you.  Because it's your wonderful Life.

I'm a musician, and I studied counseling and communications in college.  Music – and my education in psychology and human relationships – made me want to capture life’s memories even more.  In 1999, while working for IBM in tech support, I started my journey as a professional photographer, and I’ve since refined my work through study at
The Institute in Photographic Studies.

Now, I work in Los Angeles as a celebrity/fashion photographer alongside the legendary makeup artist, Alexis Vogel.  Photographing beauty transformations has become one of the most fulfilling aspects of my career. 

Working with celebrity clients, the images reflect unbridled intensity and drama…the over-the-top glamour of the Hollywood icons who shape our pop culture.  But we work with many non-celebrities, too – women and men who want and need to look their best, whether for their work and career optimization…or simply for the inner need to reaffirm self worth.  It’s every bit as inspiring.

Candid photos can show the true beauty and romance of everyday life, but Alexis Vogel's brilliant artistry has given countless clients from every walk of life the knowledge that their beauty exists not only on the inside, but also on the outside.  And the reaffirmation of beauty is never “topical” or superficial: for every client, a makeover produces a renewed “spontaneity of Spirit” I strive to capture in timeless images.

Beauty is everywhere, and I'm finding my niche capturing beauty in lives of the unsuspecting beautiful…

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