Ever since I was born, I have been surrounded by nature. I live in what some might call a cottage in the middle of the woods and in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. As a child, my favorite playgrounds were the trees, and I would sometimes take deep walks through the densest parts of our forest, imagining I was deep in the heart of an exotic jungle where any second I might see a monkey swinging through the branches or a panther stalking its prey, or even better, a pack of velocirapters pouncing through the foliage (I was always fascinated by dinosaurs, and seeing the movie Jurassic Park did nothing to subdue that). However, desp
Current Residence: Southern California Favourite genre of music: classical, jazz and Indie though i'm open to anything deep and meaningful MP3 player of choice: Ipod
I'm really excited! I'm finally able to use my Macro adapter lens and my wide angle lens that I got for my birthday 2 months ago. (the adapter was back ordered and finally came in yesterday. I'll be posting those when figure out what I'm doing and I get something good. I have a lot to learn.
I'll also be sporadically updating my gallery with the best of my older pictures. I have about 6,000 of them to sort through!
I've been on here for awhile but have been watching from the sidelines, sort of waiting to be discovered and meet people. But I'm ready to jump in now, or at least I'm making an introduction. I'd like to meet more friends and get more watches on here. I feel I'm slipping past the radar a bit.
I'm here because I want to inspire and be inspired and connect with other creative people, share my ideas with the world and improve my work.
Music is my main passion but I love doing photography and poetry for fun and I've dabbled in a bit of painting. I value beauty and expression and that's why I'm so connected with the arts. I'm also into psycholo