I'm a cinematographer based in Colorado's Front Range. I love to shoot narrative and documentary film. I'm a firm believer that everything in the frame should serve a purpose in telling the story, and that a cinematographer's job is to bring the director's vision to life. I love working with directors to get exactly the right mood and feeling to tell their story.

I have experience using all kinds of different equipment - cameras from Sony, Panasonic, Blackmagic, Arri; lighting with tungsten and LED, or just relying on natural sources, and thoroughly enjoy finding different lenses and filters to fit the style and mood of the production. I even develop my own filters to create unique looks. I tend to shoot in a style similar to shooting on film, and prefer to perfect the look in-camera.

I grew up in Boulder, Colorado. My dad was a photographer, so I learned about film when I was young. I got my first video camera when I was 13, and started filming skateboarding videos on my VHS-C camcorder. I devised my own crude VHS editing technique using a pair of VCRs and mixing in music from a discman through one of the audio inputs. It was extremely rough, but we used our naïve creativity to make some really fun and interesting projects! In High school I took a video production class, and learned some basics of camera work as well as the early days of digital video editing, and everything took off from there.

Over the next decade I enjoyed making videos and did it solely as a hobby - making mostly car racing/drifting videos, and outdoor adventure videos.

Eventually I decided I wanted to take film more seriously, I enrolled in Colorado Film School in Aurora, CO, which has really helped to push me to the next level. It has taken me from a casual video maker, to realizing this is how I want to spend the rest of my life. There's nothing I'd rather be doing, and every day I look forward to new projects and opportunities.