Roxobel, North Carolina. Population 300….on a good day, when all the relatives are in town. Okay, not quite the center of the visual arts world. But I have to credit my very rural hometown for inspiring my passion for photography. When someone handed me a camera and asked me to “make pictures” for the high school yearbook, that was all she wrote. Bound for the big city. Turns out my course was set for Atlanta. That’s where I attended the Portfolio Center’s photography program for two years. My mission: to learn how to blend art with science. Since graduating from PC, I’ve been lucky enough to have my work featured in some of advertising’s best awards books. Communication Arts, The One Show, Graphis, Print, New York Art Director’s Annual, Archive and others. Serving clients from Minnesota to Florida and across the country, I’ve been tapped by ad agencies who do smart, conceptual print for companies like Cingular, Coca-Cola, BellSouth, United Postal Service, Sotheby's, ING and the Southern Company. Next stop: Wilmywood. Just to mix things up, in March 2005 I moved my family to quaint and charming Wilmington, North Carolina. A little closer to my roots, not to mention the beach. Oddly enough, Wilmington is also home to EUE Screen Gems Studios—the third largest film studio in the country. Imagine that. I’d heard of other commercial shooters moving into film. And as the media platform shifted over the last several years, I decided to explore this new world where things moved around and there was the additional—and powerful—impact of sound. It was a completely new frontier for me, but somehow it felt like coming home. The visual spectrum. So whether you need stills, motion or both, I can offer the quality you would expect from a large urban studio, with the refreshing bonus of small-town personal attention. In fact, I'll be happy to pass along the names of my satisfied customers. Where I come from, that's what matters most.