A photo Retrospective
I picked up my first camera over twenty years ago. My dad had studied photography in college and had an old Nikon and a few lenses. I would grab a few rolls of film and shoot my big brother’s soccer games. I doubt my pictures were any good but a love of photography was born. I never really stopped taking pictures. In college, I’d wander around the rural areas outside Athens and take photos of sunsets and farm animals. Hey, we all start somewhere. What most kids spent on booze, I spent on trips to Wolf camera where $10 would get you a roll of 24 4x6s and look a hell of a lot better than Walmart prints.
I always knew I wanted to be a storyteller. Combine that with my love of photography, and photojournalism was the obvious choice. Right out of college, I focused on nothing but shooting, and ever since then, I’ve used my skills to tell stories. I’ve had the luck to work with an amazing group of talented people over the years and tell some extraordinary stories. With that collaboration, my skills have grown beyond what I ever imagined when I first picked up the old man’s Nikon. From photos to video to motion graphics and everything in between, my journey has been one filled with new challenges and I’ve learned it’s the challenge I love.
But I’ve always worked for other people to do it. After fifteen years, I’ve decided to tell the stories I want to tell now. I want to work with the people who need help figuring out what their stories are. That’s why I’ve decided to enter the uncharted world of freelance but now, I’m all in.
So here are a few of my favorite images from my earliest days. Sunsets, travel pics and that one time I got to shoot the Dawgs beat Bama in Tuscaloosa in overtime. It’s fun to look back on what I could do in the past but it’s what I have ahead of my that I’m excited about. Stay tuned.
A Roma woman and child in a village on the outskirts of Cluj, Romania.
A UGA barn, dilapidated to a dangerous degree, sits behind a chain-link fence.
Defensive end Jeremy Lomax celebrates with fans after the Georgia Bulldogs defeat Alabama in overtime 26-23 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Saturday, September, 22, 2007. Quarterback Matthew Stafford threw the game-winning touchdown in overtime after Alabama kicked a field goal.
