I have been taking photographs since I was a young man. I was a film guy for many year and felt the digital world was taking away from the purity of capturing images. Then on a trip to Paris I realized it would cost a fortune to capture the city via film, so I came out of the film closet and bought a Canon S3 camera. I was hooked and loved the camera and images.. But I felt bad about leaving my Nikon family and immediately jumped back to it. Now every summer I spend time in France going to language and cooking schools, taking extra time to visit new sites to capture.

"It is not the image that the photographer takes...It is the image that inspires the photographer."