I am a photographer and Oscar nominated filmmaker. My love of cameras began at age 4. Growing up with a father who was a movie cameraman. Cameras seemed like magical instruments. I yearned to use them to cast visual spells. To capture sensations that celebrate the beautry of nature. I approach my photographic subjects as sensory explorations, allowing intuition to guide me often making long exposures. Or shooting highly orignal compositions. Wether it is a study of waves on the North Shore in Oahu, Koi in ponds in California, leaves dancing in a fall tree. I use my camera as a paintbrush not a gun. I try to create "in" camera, composing experientially, constantly trying push my photography to new levels of visual experience. I love reflections and will sometimes create prismatic nature montages, "organic mandalas" from a single image image inverted on itself. When an image feels magical it floods my emotions.
