Although I've had a truly lifelong love of photography (snapping Polaroids since I was big enough to hold a camera), in recent years it's become my absolute passion. I was an early convert to (and semi-evangelist of) digital photography after quickly falling in love with the freedom and control that digital offered, starting with one of the earliest digital cameras made (an Apple QuickTake, in 1994) and continuing unabated today with Canon's latest line of digital SLRs.
Photography has come to mean much more to me than a mere hobby or pursuit - after several years of dealing with severe mental illness, photography has not only become the best outlet for my creative vision, but the best form of therapy and release that I've ever had - no medicine I've ever taken has done half as much for me as getting behind the lens and finding all the moments in the world around me to capture and make my own.
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- Issue 7: The Beach
For all its beauty, Utah - or Deseret, as the Mormons originally called it - seemed to me a haunted place. I've since learned a great deal more of its stark and bloody history than I knew when I took these, though I can still remember the chill I felt at how that sense of darkness came out so easily in so many of the photographs I took there.