I’ve always thought of myself as a photographer. Beginning with my first Polaroid Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, I’ve amassed tens of thousands of images of my friends, my pets, my family and then later, my travels near and far, my children, landscapes and wildlife. My love of photography is firmly rooted in my desire to capture forever, a moment I never want to forget.
For me, traveling and photographing along the way, is a way of life. I have traveled extensively, and I can say wholeheartedly that it is the single most rewarding thing I have done in all my years on this earth. There are very few words that can convey the feeling of standing alone in the quietude of the desert, waiting for the light to morph from silver to gold or perched upon a riverbank, watching a grizzly sow and her cubs. That’s exactly where photography takes me. It’s the ideal escapism. Mother Nature, after all, has an imagination far greater than my own - photography is just a way to appreciate it.
In Shanti’s words,
“At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
