BIO
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| I owe my inspiration and passion for shooting sports to the photographers whose work graced the pages of Sports Illustrated while I was growing up, Walter Iooss, Neil Leifer, Howard Bingham, Peter Read Miller and Michael Zagaris to name a few. What I really like about sports photography boils down to two things. One is the photographic process. Sports photography challenges me to see creatively and makes use of my intuition to anticipate action. When I'm in the process of taking pictures, whatever I'm seeing is brought to a place in my mind where everything gets broken down into forms, patterns, lines, colors, textures and moments. I love the times when I'm shooting when things just scream to me to take a picture. It's almost like being an athlete "in the zone" where you can do no wrong and everything goes your way. Secondly, there's nothing like immersing oneself into the atmosphere of a sporting event. The senses come alive from the roar of the crowd, the different odors of sweat, grass and food that intermingle and waff throughout the stadium, the beauty and grace of athletes executing play on the field--it's magic, inspiring and it never gets old for me. My camera has been my passport to many exciting sporting events here locally in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have been published in the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers and on the websites of Minor League Baseball, the San Jose Giants, and the San Francisco Giants. I am open to assignments, locally, nationally and internationally. |
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