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Amateurs care about equipment.

Pros care about money.

Masters care about light. 

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This is an old maxim that I keep with me through my growth as a photographer, and it's a good north star. It's a good way of thinking to keep me focused on what is important and good about photography. Of course there's more than light to consider. There's composition, angle, range, contrast, symmetry, focus, blur, tension, balance, scale, texture, shape, color...all expressed in light.

As a real estate photographer, I've found a new emphasis on space in my work. The old masters, painters of landscapes, explored the appearance of distance; understanding how a tree far away will appear differently than one that is close, as the atmosphere steals the color and bends the hue. The distances I express are somewhat less, so the air doesn't exact the same tribute from my subject. To express the spaces I photograph, I learn more from studying the modern painter, Edward Hopper. I look for my own way to communicate the amount of space in a room, and like Hopper I create opportunities to see from one room to another, or from inside to outside or vice versa. In this I share the voyeuristic experience of seeing something we don't normally see, or seeing it differently, more at hand.

Capturing and communicating what is inviting about a space, and our human relation to the volume around us, is what can describe a home. Walls are limits, but space is possibility. Walls are protection and space is freedom, and I believe a home expresses how we value these things. I use all of that, everything I've learned and everything I continue to learn, to express the beauty of a home.

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