Posted on November 17, 2017
I want to start off by telling you how all of this began so you can understand me and why I do all of this a little better. It all started with my grandma taking me on walks through the woods in a baby backpack before I was even able to walk on own and then when I could walk continuing to take me into the forest. Being California raised she moved to the tiny town of Libby Montana with my mother on her own in her late twenties. She has always had an adventurous soul and quickly fell in love with the pristine wilderness of the area. So it all started with nana. I attribute the very beginnings of my love for the outdoors with her. I also had some close friends growing up that lived near me in the woods and we would spend all day climbing trees, exploring in the woods, and building forts only coming in when we were “dying” of thirst or “starving” to death. As I got older me and nana would go on longer hikes and eventually she took me and my younger brother on a backpacking trip. At that point I was hooked! Eventually I began driving myself as far as the roads would take me and be gone sometimes all day climbing peaks and exploring lakes in the heart of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. I always felt accomplished after a long day of being deep in the woods and also felt close to my creater in the wilderness. I would say it has always been my element and place of finding myself and resetting before heading back home. I also enjoyed a lot of camping and some backpacking with friends. Leaving the mountains in my early twenties to work in the flatlands of North Dakota was not easy for me but I would take time off in the summer to hike in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. I quit my job in June of this year and am now enjoying having the freedom to explore all over the US and eventually the world. I must tell you I have developed a love for the ocean now as well and as I have always loved travel many of the pictures I share will be in places besides just the forest or mountains.
My love for photography started about the time I began going off deep into the wilderness on my own. I wanted to capture the beauty of what I was seeing and share my adventures with others. What better way than with a picture worth a thousand of my own words? Now years later I have a good camera and a portable drone in my arsenal that I have been using since I quite in June to capture my adventures. It is my hope that as you see through my lens something inside of you will come alive and your curiosity, wonder, and sense of adventure will began to ignite. Who knows, maybe it won’t be enough to just see though my eyes