I was asked what inspires me.. This is what I said.

From the moment I pushed the shutter button on my Mickey Mouse 110 camera, and instructed my unwilling cousin to stand still for one more shot as I thumbed my way to the next frame. I knew I wanted to be a photographer. I was 5. I still, to this day have this photo. It is on my website. Thirty years later, I still have one way vision. I wonder how everything I see would look in a photograph. My passion is taking pictures of kids and families, and freezing a memory and a moment in time. Everything is beautiful in its own way, even cracked eggs after making your weekend breakfast. I am inspired, not by any one photographer, but by the people or the beautiful things that are in front of my lens. I am inspired by the small details of messy hair, and little sleeves that have jelly smudged on them.. by orange cheese puff covered fingers, and the marks that they leave behind. (And lets not forget Kool-Aid Smiles.) To put it quite simply life's details inspire me. I have not had any formal training, other than real life experience, and having a camera as an appendage of my body for the last 30 years.
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