About

At a very young age, I was fascinated by my father’s stories of traveling as a photographer in the military.  He taught me how to see things from the journalist’s perspective and he taught me how to find, compose capture and develop my photography on his old “F series” Nikon bodies. These were great cameras.  But once digital technology hit the scene I knew that I was going to finally be able to start developing my own style.

Uros Islands, Puno, Peru, 2007

I always saw world travel and photojournalism as quite a good fit.  So when I got the chance to do it myself, I put photography back at the forefront of my life and it really took off form there. In college I got a degree in journalism with an focus on photography and on every semester break I would take off to a new country and test out what I had learned in my classes.  I would write and take photos of what I hoped would turn out to be the insider’s perspective on a new culture in a new place.  I tried to capture an element of native flare in all my work and hoped to tie into my writing the ideas and issues that face the locals of those communities.

For the last five years, I have been riding my bike and traveling around the world — constantly chasing after that same point of view; capturing it through my journals.  And in my photography, I am chasing after that “slice of life” piece that captures a story surrounding its subject.  I like having my photos be able to stand alone without the need for the back story.  But as a writer, I just can’t help but to actually tell the story along with all my work.  I get so much more satisfaction and fulfillment out of bringing the real details of the shot into the limelight.  The time, the place, the remarkable events leading up to that shot — in some cases, even the shot specs: the exposure, the aperture, the ISO and so on.  See my online gallery of photography here.

All told, my travels have taken me through Canada, Alaska, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia, Borneo, Brunei Darussalem, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Macau and all over the U.S.  I have ridden my bike more than 14,000 miles in pursuit of this broadening horizon.  And I don’t see a stopping point any time soon.

In fact, because of my new exploits into videography, I have produced two feature length documentary films and a brand new label, Travel Geek.  My first film, Travel Geek: Documentary Philippines will be airing on Fil/Am TV Channel 31 Los Angeles in 2012, and my most recent film, Travel Geek: Documentary Taiwan will be released in the summer, 2012.

So stay tuned for more great stories from all over the globe.

Not all who wander are lost, I once read.  For me, the quest is the journey.

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