I grew up along the shores of Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland, Ohio along a major migratory bird flyway. John James Audubon's Monograph, Birds of America, and Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America were the first pieces of artwork I loved. I spent days studying and trying to emulate Peterson and Audubon as a bird-watching teenager.

As an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Maine, I studied biology, focusing on using molecular biology to explore ecosystem ecology. However, when I picked up a camera during my senior year, I realized that my youthful passions of bird watching and gardening lay in photography, not biology. When I graduated in 2003, my consuming desire was to take pictures.

Since then, I have traveled widely with my camera. My work grew substantially in 2004-2005, when I studied at the SMFA in Boston for a year. I've recently been an artist-in-residence at the Sitka Center in Oregon and I-Park in Connecticut.

Aside from the bird photographs in this portfolio, I have spent much of my time photographing urban and community based agriculture projects. This project has taken me across the US and to Cuba. I'm now living in Mongolia as a Fulbright Fellow, photographing the new horticulture projects that have recently become popular here.