The Story Behind the Photograph When first approached about the possibility of being the 2014-2015 Seasons Pass Artist for the Rhode Island Blood Center, I did not hesitate to say yes. And to understand why I said yes, and why I created the photograph that I did, we are going to have to travel back
For the past two decades, Rocky Point Park sat abandoned and closed to the public — the remnants of an amusement park barely visible under overgrown vegetation and chain-link fence. Rocky Point Amusement ran from 1840 until it closed for good in 1995. I visited often as a kid and have a lot of fond
As an artist, one of my favorite things is to share my photographs. To share my visions, what I see, and how I have captured them with my camera excites me, and drives me to continue creating! Each photograph that I create contains more than just the scene before my lens. It contains a little
Photographers put a lot of planning into an outing — scouting locations, checking tide charts, deciding on gear ahead of time, all in service of the specific shot in your head. Then you show up, get set up, dial in your exposure and composition, and wait for the light. Sometimes that plan goes right out
Sometimes we get lost Sometimes we get lost. Not just as an artist or a photographer, but as a person. It happened to me. The reasons might be different for everyone, but the struggle is the same — a loss of identity, a loss of confidence, and it hits your creative work hard. For several
