In school I had a painting teacher that cautioned his class on using black paint. Perhaps he did not like black in compositions or felt a heaviness or danger in its lack of illuminating color spectrum. Being the rebel I was then, I used black paint because I liked its dimensional qualities. To this day I find black or darkness make imagery more realistic as the contrast can give a grit or a dynamic impact. It directs the eye through composition posing a mystery to the negativ

Entrepreneurs are a rare breed of individuals and partnerships that are constantly reinvigorating the nature of business. Sometimes found tucked away in non-traditional environments of old warehouse buildings in this rust belt region, they begin small and lean attracting forward thinking talent to build solid frameworks that provide services for modern commerce. They push the old business models into new terrority. These entrepreneurs begin with ideas and intentions turning d

Give a person a stage with microphone and you will learn who they really are. Any public platform can expose the good, the bad and the ugly of any individual. I am so lucky that my platform has been photography as a means to express myself and share observations. I choose to express the positive more than the negative because to dwell elsewhere is to not appreciate opportunity. Whether it has been commercial assignments or personal work creating through a lens has given me a