Hi, my name is Eric and I’m a Photographer.
My father introduced me to photography nearly forty years ago. My first “assignment” was as photographer for my Junior High School annual when I was in 8th grade. I remember shooting a photo of the Orchestra teacher while he was directing a rehearsal. I was shooting in B&W, sitting on the floor watching Mr. Neal conduct and taking shots as the orchestra played through something by Bach. When I processed the photo in the darkroom, I saw that I captured him with his baton in a motion blur on the downbeat; his eyes intense and focused on his students. I’ve been hooked ever since.
My passion for photography is what drives me. Very much like what I described as my first assignment, I get supercharged when reviewing the moments in time I capture with my camera. I like to think of them as little vignettes, imagining what was going through the minds of people in the photo at the time - did they know each other? Is there love? Hate? Or something in between? In that way, I like to describe myself as a narrative photographer. My favorite photos are when I am able to capture people in some sort of interaction. Those photos carry so much more impact. I strive for these when doing either street photography or documenting events for an assignment.
As you look through my website, you’ll see other areas of interest of mine. The landscape of this country is amazing and I have fallen in love with its diversity of topography. That diversity is also carried over to the structures we have built across the land and time fabric of our nation, so “Place” refers to landscape, buildings and quirky attractions.
While most of my work today is digital, I still shoot film when I can. There’s just a magic in the look of analog photography in the combination of chemical emulsion and physical grain that we try to emulate in digital equipment, but we are still unable to duplicate it.
So welcome to my website. I hope that you enjoy these visual storyboards as much as I have enjoyed making them.