I wasn’t always drawn to the wild.

Born and raised in Ocala, Florida, I was a city kid through and through. The untamed wilderness was just something I saw in books and on glowing screens; I genuinely believed the concrete grid was where we all belonged.

But in 2015, a cross-country move to Los Angeles changed the entire trajectory of my life.

That drive forced me out of the noise and onto the open road. Seeing the raw, absolute majesty of the American West for the first time was a profound awakening. I was instantly hooked. I picked up a camera not just to take pictures, but to document that massive internal shift—to show others this new world exactly as I was feeling it.

For years, my work as an award-winning adventure and landscape photographer has been driven by one singular goal: to create a deeply emotional connection between the viewer and the earth. Through a cinematic play of light, shadow, and color, I strive to capture the living, breathing pulse of a scene, rather than just freezing a moment in time.

But as my journey evolved, I realized that some stories are simply too vast to be contained within a single visual frame.

This realization sparked a massive pivot in my creative life, expanding my passion for storytelling from the camera to the pen. My debut novella, The Simple Man, is the culmination of that transition. It takes the visual world-building I learned behind the lens and translates it to the written page.

Whether I am peering through a viewfinder or staring down a blank page, my mission remains exactly the same: to explore the human experience, and to tell stories that make you feel truly alive.