You want a nice painting, call my sister.
You want amazing photographs? I’m your guy.
As a kid I took art classes with my sister. That’s where she discovered she was a gifted drawer/painter. And I discovered I was not. But it was the not-being-able-to-draw-or-paint discovery that led me to search for something else. And that something-else search led me to photography.
I worked at an amusement park the summer after my first year at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and saved up for an SLR (single lens reflex) camera—the first of, well, let’s just say many, many SLR cameras. In my days as a “Cobber,” as Concordia students are called, I studied photography with a fabulously talented commercial photographer who happened to be on staff at the time.
Although I was technically a music education and vocal performance major (lyric baritone, in case you’re curious), you could find me all over campus photographing anything and everything in a medium format with a 50’s era Rolleicord TLR (twin lens reflex). And yes, I even did time behind the counter at a local camera shop.
I finished school cum laude (Latin for “darn good student”), and taught music classes for high school and middle school students for two years—actually switching schools halfway through the day. But the cameras were calling. So I switched gears and started shooting weddings in 2002. And here I am today, living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Huey—still quite happy to be clicking away. Weddings. Kids. Families. And, ironically, lots of high school seniors. Tempting as it is, I don’t quiz them on music theory or anything.
So there you have it. I don’t draw or paint. And probably never will. But I do shoot some pretty amazing photos. So if that’s the look you’re after, we should definitely talk.