I started creating images of the world around me while I was a teenager on Long Island, NY. While finishing High School in New Mexico I worked for a local portrait photographer, Don Taylor. While working there I was able develop my technical skills in photography. After High School and a few years of college I attended Hallmark Institute of Photography, where I refined my technical skills even further and gained valuable experience creating images through an assignment based program. Upon graduation from Hallmark I received a job working as a Commercial Photographer in Philadelphia, PA for a printing company, Berry and Homer. There I gained more valuable training in the field of Commercial Photography. In 2005 I created The Plaid Image in pursuit of my career as a commercial photographer. The Plaid Image started in Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in commercial photography and flora & fauna stock images. In 2010 I moved to Nevada to focus my photography career on flora and fauna stock images and adventure sport photography. At which point I changed the name of my company to Backcountry Photographer.