My relationship with photography began in childhood - blurry frames of squirrels at a local park, chasing something I couldn't quite catch. The instinct was already there: stop, look, try to hold onto a moment before it disappears.
It was my honeymoon in New England in 2000 that first showed me what photography could mean. The landscapes, the light, the experience of discovering a place alongside someone I loved - I understood then that a photograph isn't just a record. It's an act of attention.
When my daughter was born in October 2001, I bought my first digital camera and committed to documenting the world with a discipline I hadn't had before — every outfit, every expression, every ordinary morning made extraordinary by the fact that it was happening. That practice of daily, careful observation shaped how I see everything since.
My skills deepened through professional work, through better equipment, and through a DSLR and dedicated lenses that finally gave me the technical vocabulary to match my vision - shallow depth of field, backgrounds that fall gently away, a subject held sharp and luminous against the world.
Travel has become the fullest expression of that vision. Over more than a decade, I have returned again and again to the Michoacán highlands of Mexico - to the lakeside streets of Pátzcuaro, the ancient ruins of Tzintzuntzan, the quiet waters of Ichupio - learning the way light moves there across different seasons, different hours, different years. I have also carried my camera through the cobblestone streets of Rome and Venice, the green hills of Scotland and Wales, the canals of Amsterdam, the alleyways of Dublin and Paris, and the coastlines and mountains of California. Each place asks something different of me.
What I'm always looking for is the same: a moment of genuine stillness inside the movement of the world. A detail that, if I look carefully enough, tells a larger story. Travel photography, for me, is not about being a tourist with a camera. It is about becoming, however briefly, a witness - present, patient, and paying attention.