I am an avid outdoors person, who loves to explore, hike, kayak, camp and spend as much time in the wilds as possible.  My photography goes hand in hand with this as I am able to capture the amazing world of nature all around us and share it with others.  I love to share beauty of this phenomenal world.   I want to encourage people to get out and enjoy nature but also to teach them about our wildlands and encourage them to take care of it so it will be there for not only us, but generations to come.

Nature has always been a draw to me, it has an inherent beauty that I learned to appreciate at a very young age.  My family’s vacations were camping, hiking and fishing all around Kentucky and down into Tennessee.  My parents loved the great outdoors and passed on that love to me and through the years of my life, I have always found myself gravitating to nature at every opportunity.  To me, nature possesses an unending variety of beauty and is ever changing; it offers wonderful surprises at every look, every step, along every path, and in every corner and crevice.

With a camera in my hand, I see things I would possibly never see otherwise.  I love to seek out those hidden beauties whether I might just be walking a short distance down a path, along a stream, or through a woods, or I am hiking the mountains to seeing the glorious vistas, thunderous waterfalls, or glacial lakes they have to offer.  I love to hike and kayak, but even more I love to capture these images and share them with others to bring that story,  that emotion, that sense of awe, that sense of  peace and calm, that I have been able to experience when I step out into the wondrous world of nature around us.

The more I have immersed myself into nature that more I want to make a difference.  The wilderness is changing and disappearing and I want to share this wilderness but also bring awareness of the changes it is undergoing.  I want future generations to be able to experience what I am able to and to see all the variety of environments and wildlife and not to let these things disappear.