Growing up, my grandfather took pictures all the time. I’m sure you know the type. He had the camera at just about every event, asking us to pose. As kids we used to get tired of him always in our face. As I grew up and started adulthood, I started to understand what he was doing. He was capturing moments in time. When he passed away years later, the question came up who would get all his pictures? As it turned out I did. Looking through everything he had I was having a hard time figuring out what I was going to do with them. He shot film slides and I didn’t have any projector to really view them. Then I had an idea, I’d get a film scanner and digitize them.

 Looking at the slides, I realized these captured a time when I was a child and many family events. I had to save these so others in the future could have the benefit of seeing the family and where they came from. I started to think about how many photos are going to get lost. We shoot pictures with our phones but how many are really saved or even viewed after we shoot them.

For me photos are capturing a moment in time. I think that’s what really makes photography. I know there’s many different types of photography that are made to depict a mode or something that really is real. With nature (including animals) we capture what it’s like right here and now. With sports we capture a play, a throw, a winning event. Capturing the feeling in that split second is tough, but that challenge is what drives me.

Many photos don’t have meaning to some people but sometimes to a few they are priceless. My goal is to pass on the feeling I have at a given moment in time. I hope my work does that.