Artist Statement: 

As I embrace photography and choose to go to places that inspire me, I strive to take photos that make you part of my picture.  I want the image to  make  you feel as if you are actually walking into that space with me. The goal of my art is to not only show my audience that I dream in reality, but more importantly that they can too. 

Background:

I am a native Grand Rapidian who enjoys everything outdoors. My journey into photography started in 2017, and ever since my passion has been taking photographs that show Mother Nature’s true beauty, the cities I roam and the people I have met.  

 This passion for photography has fueled my desire to travel to distant lands in order to tackle new challenges and to size up landscapes I once only saw in magazines. During the last few years I have stood next to 200 foot waterfalls in Iceland, watched the sun set over rolling waves on the Pacific, explored caves in Arizona that look like another world... and the next day was pricked by a cactus in the desert. My adventures have allowed me to look down onto cites below from the top of mountains in Colorado to looking up watching the dreamy Aurora Borealis dance high above in Alaska.  

Michigan has my heart and is my home, so I continue to do a great deal of landscape photography here. I have had projects in places all over representing companies such as Tamron Americas photo lenses, Allegiant Air, Experience Grand Rapids, Verizon, Visit Frankenmuth, Pure Michigan and have been published by National Geographic. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an ad I saw on a small phone screen while scrolling on social media, the cover of a magazine or on a giant billboard. I am an explorer and creator and position myself so I Dream in Reality—but, the best part is I’m just getting started!