Photography has always been a big part of my life.  As a young child, my family and I would travel to Sidney, Nebraska every year to visit my father’s brother.  He was the owner of a photography studio known as Phillips Photography.  My family and I would spend about a week there every year and I would follow him around learning, and watching what he did for a living.  I was in the dark room processing my first black and white prints at the age of ten.  When I was about sixteen, I realized that becoming a photographer was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  I received my first 35mm camera when I was seventeen and started taking photographs of anything and everything I could.

Nearly five years later, I started attending Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, NE where I learned more about the technical aspects of photography.  The more I learned, the more I wanted to take pictures of everything; people, pets, nature, architecture, anything I could find.  The more photographs that I took, the more I realized that I really had a passion for photographing people.  I love capturing moments in people’s lives that they can never have again.  Seeing all the different moods they have, and just taking photos of monumental events in their lives is what truly drives me to take photographs.