UnderPass Photography

Noticing and framing shots is a ongoing activity for me, and has been for most of my life. I am particularly drawn to the ordinary that is often unnoticed or taken for granted. The stuff in the middle that has its own character when framed as a subject in itself. The shots that work are often elegant and bold and, when I get real lucky, there is this kind of juxtaposition of forms my glass capture

s that explodes in a previously unnoticed grandeur. My brother paints in fields and in marshes, and he sn**ches that slice of life out there. It can be interesting, but I tend to grab hold of some man-made thing as a point of reference. Sometimes I get lucky shooting nature, but mostly I shoot the things men build. Brick and mortar, concrete, iron, and wood are all interesting to me. I particularly like to see the old and the new in the same plane, juxtaposed at times, merging into one another at others. Large and small cities interest me - old things, new, abandoned, or unused seem to draw my attention and I can sn**ch a look of it with my lens. My work is all original and you are seeing the things that are interesting to me - things I find out in the world often hidden from view, mostly from the back side or underside or an angle that is missed on the postcards. I like back doors over front doors, alleys over streets, underpasses over bridges, behind the scenes instead of center stage. It's not the darkness of these back sides of things, it's their greatness. Every now and then as I am focusing in on a subject of some kind and I snap it, I hear myself saying, "There it is," and even though I may not stop shooting right then, I have found something interesting to me in that spot. I live and work in Texas and consider it home. Transplants like me often say "I was not born in Texas - but I got here as quick as I could." I like Texas. It's my home. Anything you purchase is shipped directly from Texas.