Hello and welcome to my blog! This has been well over a year in the making and I’m so excited to have my website finally up and running. I want to say a huge thank you to David DiJanni, an extremely talented graphic designer, for building this site. If anyone is in need of a creative graphic designer, he’s your man! I also want to say thank you to my photography professor and friend Jim Flory forcontinually supporting me through the years. I wouldn’t be the photographer that I am without his guidance. Finally, a big thank you to my family and friends for their continual support and encouragement. Words cannot describe how much they mean to me.
If you’ve taken the time to look through each of my digital portfolios, I’m sure you’ve noticed that the majority of my work was captured while traveling. Even in the case of my “non-travel” photos such as landscapes or abstracts, I’d say about 90% of my work was captured while traveling. Travel is a huge passion of mine. Getting away from the ordinary and experiencing different cultures, landscapes, foods, colors, and so on is very inspiring. I’ve found that travel, coupled with photography, is the ideal way to experience a destination. Photography as a medium requires the user to focus on aesthetic details that can easily be overlooked. As such, I believe that travel photography allows for a holistic experience within a new setting that satisfies both the individual as a traveler, who sees a setting in a way that highlights both the colossal and obscure, and the individual as a photographer, who is not purely focused on finding “that next shot” but is more focused on the overall experience. Henry Moore said, “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” It just so happens that my “new way of seeing things” is a direct result of the combination of travel and photography.
As such, this blog is going to be a combination of photography and travel. Each week, I will post an image and share the story behind its capture, as well as the technical photographic elements involved. I hope that this blog will serve as inspiration to others to pick up a camera, get out of the comforts of everyday life, and experience the unknown. I promise you won’t be disappointed!
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