About DW Photography

I received a camera as a Christmas present when I was in high school and soon began exploring how to tell stories with images. When I took a photography class in college, our final project was a "photo essay." I chose to show the disparate lives of the “haves and the have-nots” in my college town, each community segregated by a local waterway. The project was called "The Bridge Between” and it was the first time I realized how photographs could evoke emotions and communicate a narrative in a way that words could not.

Since that college assignment many years ago, a few things have changed: technology, my skill level, and my artistic interests and inspiration. I now pursue fine art nature photography which can range between such diverse subjects as grand mountain vistas to intimate impressionistic seaside scenes. Regardless of the subject or technique used, I'm still trying to tell a story - to somehow capture with my camera the "visual voice" of what I'm witnessing. And to this day, the hardest part of it all is just being quiet and listening for that voice.