I'm a cinematographer based in Denver, Colorado. I love to do narrative and documentary film, and sometimes do commercial as well. I tend to lean towards dark and moody styles, with natural looking light, and mixing wide and closeup shots, but also love mixing things up to get the right look for every shot and scene.

I'm a firm believer that everything in the frame should serve a purpose in telling the story, and that a cinematographer's real 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 quickly learned about film, and how to shoot on 35mm film still cameras when I was in my teens. 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 create 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 of myself.

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 actually something I'm good at. This is now my life - filmmaking is my destiny. There's nothing I'd rather be doing, and every day I look forward to new projects and opportunities.