So with this in mind let me give you a brief introduction of myself. During my youth I was very much art oriented, but somehow along the way I became completely about science. In college I eventually collected two degrees in Psychology and Sociology. Before I began my Doctoral track in Psychology, I decided to take a year off from school. During that year I found a job at a small up and coming toy company. I began as an assistant in Production Management, but quickly I found that I had other latent talents that I could put to use. Long story short, within 2.5 years I had become the Head Art Director for the company. I loved my job, I actually had DREAMS about going to work … yes, dreams, not nightmares. But, alas nothing golden can last and with the current economic crisis my job, my perfect job, became Unemployment. I decided that while I would willingly enter another position elsewhere I wanted to make a living with art. I devour design books, breath typography, and I notice kerning errors in business cards long before I see any of the words written there. However, Photography is my 1st love. The idea of being able to capture something that lasts less than a second in a media that can last hundreds of years. My first realization of the magic of photography came after the death of my Aunt in early 2008. Shortly thereafter I was retouching some photos and found a simple snapshot of my Aunt that I had taken with a mundane Point and Shoot. She was holding my barely 6 month old niece, feeding her. The lighting was HORRIBLE, a lamp on the table behind her was completely blown out. No one in the picture was looking at me, they were completely unaware that I was taking the shot. It was the last picture I took of my aunt. I had captured her very essence there inside a simple digital camera that anyone with opposable thumbs could use. No lighting, no staging, no posing, no nothing. I was there, I shot, and here was a record of something that had substance. The very thought of it all was mind boggling. I knew then that I would try to use my camera to capture this every-time I clicked the shutter. To attempt to capture the very essence of people, places, and things so that those who viewed the image in the future might have a chance of understanding. It might seem like a lofty goal, but going back to my professor, he also said that those scientists had something else that only neophytes have, something he called primal drive. It wasn’t the drive to become better, it was simply the drive to become, and it was hundreds of times more potent than the former. I hope I have that primal drive of which he waxed long about, and I hope that through this site I am able to pass a little of it on to you.