My life right now is spent hopping from one fancy wedding venue to the next, but it wasn’t always that way.
My passion for photography started when I picked up my first camera at the age of 11 years old. As a pre-teen, I felt enamored by the skateboarding culture and skate photography. I dreamed of traveling the world photographing skateboarding for a living and tried relentlessly to make it in the skateboarding industry.
By the time I turned 16, I had dropped out of high school and was living on the streets, public parks, and friends’ sofas in Southern California, still pursuing my dream of being a professional skateboard photographer.
At 18 years old, and still not a professional skate photographer, I decided it was time for a change; I packed my camera bag and drove to San Francisco to become a wedding photographer. I spent weeks living out of my car and using Starbucks as my office. Slowly, using my skateboarding portfolio as my only reference, I began booking clients; now, wedding photography is my full-time career.
Today, I am 24 years old and married to the woman of my dreams. I have traveled to16 countries across four continents to photograph weddings photography. I am proud to say that I have the greatest job I could have ever imagined, even better than shooting skateboarding for a living!
I’ve been incredibly to have been fortunate to have discovered, and been able to explore my passion for teaching other photographers.