There are no people in these photographs...

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

― Ansel Adams

   It's a comment Ive heard over and over about my photographs. People just don't make a visual appearance all that often (I have done a couple weddings and engagement shoots before. More on that later).  It's a decision I have made as a photographer. My best photos have come from my travels near and far, from standing in the forests of Costa Rica to a few steps from my room. You can never fully prepare yourself for what you may come across on a photo excursion in the great outdoors, and that's the way I like it. I try and take photos that make people stop when they see them, to make people wonder, to make people take a break from their busy day and take a breathe of fresh air, as if they're in the photograph. 

"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation." 

― Ansel Adams

"I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath."

― Ansel Adams