The journey of discovering my passion for photography began in my early teens when I saw the Michael Mann movie, Last of the Mohicans. It was Dante Spinotti’s cinematography in that movie which made me fall in love with composition and lighting. From that moment, I spent the rest of my teenage years with a camera in my hand, making home movies, studying films, and dreaming of becoming a professional filmmaker. In my early 20’s, I decided to leave home and attend film school in Phoenix, so that I could learn the technical aspects of the theories I had studied. I quickly...more
