One of my passions has always been photography. Since that first plastic, instamatic camera ordered when I was seven with the top of a mail order Cheerio box and my hard earned 50 cents, I have loved photography. Hiding behind the lens, I can become an observer whether lost among the stamens of a flower or walking through a third world market. Shy by nature, the camera has allowed me to discover other worlds through selective vision. Time shifts, a mille-second is frozen, a mood or expression caught, shifting light is made permanent. Holding onto the "now" that a moment later is the "past" are all part of this magical and powerful medium.

My other passion, existing as long as that first camera, is children. Among them I am comfortable. I can become lost in their world and forget mine. Add a third world country and I am where I want to be.

Torn in my twenties and early thirties about being a doctor or a photographer, I have finally found what I want to be when I grow up. Combining my love of photography and my unrelenting desire to be in the third world helping where there is so much need, I hope to someday devote all my time to doing projects such as I was able to do in Africa and Tibet in 2004.

In the meantime, I shall have my cameras with me: exploring, discovering, learning.