Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, I moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1993.

Although I started taking photos as a kid, I didn't start thinking of photography professionally until the mid-1990s, when the personal injury law firm I worked for employed me (amongst other things) to take photos of injuries, damaged vehicles and accident scenes.  I realized that there was a larger world out there, just waiting to be captured on film.  But learning film photography was tedious and time-consuming.  You had to wait days, even weeks, to get your prints back from the lab.  Then came the advent of digital photography in the late 1990s.  I was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon, and I dragged the law firm kicking and screaming with me into the digital era.  My first digital camera was a 1.6 megapixel point and shoot Olympus, acquired in the year 2000.  My knowledge started to increase rapidly.  By 2003, I was totally hooked, and in 2004, I acquired my first dSLR (digital single-lens reflex camera), a 6.3 megapixel Canon Digital Rebel.  Before 2005 was out, I had traded up from that first (rather marginal) dSLR to the Canon 20D and then to the Canon 5D.  I currently shoot with a 10 megapixel 450D (Digital Rebel Xti) and my primary lens is a Canon L-series 16-35 mm wide angle zoom lens (the lens cost more than three times as much as the body - having good glass is important to taking good photos).

In 2004, I won my first photography contest, the Phoenix Convention & Visitor's Bureau Amateur Digital Photo Contest.  More awards and successes followed.  In 2008, my first gallery exhibition occurred in the summer at the Irish Cultural Center, and for a time, I had a collection of framed photos in Gallery Celtica at 509 East Roosevelt in downtown Phoenix.

I finished law school at the Phoenix School of Law in May 2009.  Presently, I volunteer for the Imperial Court of Arizona, and I run this photography business as my sole occupation at the moment.  I moved back to central Phoenix in October 2009, and I have one dog -- Peanut...a/k/a the "crack puppy."  I enjoy photography (duh!), hiking (occasionally lead hikes with Hike In Phoenix LLC), traveling, writing, cars, computer gaming (Warhammer 40,000:  Dawn of War) and Dungeons & Dragons (I'm DMing 4e with a dedicated group of friends right now). 

Call me for all of your photographic needs: 

602 999-7601

Take care.

--don