For those of you who have read my memoir you are aware of all the hurdles I have gone through and all the preconceptions I have had regarding my own work. As professional in an artistic career path who came to technological supported art from fine art I had ideas going in as to what kind of photographer I was.
I was wrong.
If you read my memoir you got the full picture on that. I thought I was going to have an artistic style, because I came from that fine art background. But it wasn’t my calling. Photo-journalistic/ documentary style is, or realism.
I do not like over edited and processed pieces, I do not like images that do not show people and moments as they truly are and I think that is exactly why photo-journalistic/documentary is my style. It took me years to get there, and it is considered one of the hardest styles of photography out there.
It's not like studio or model photography where the poses can be choreographed. In documentary photography, you shoot as the events or the action happens. This is one of the reasons why it is a difficult practice. And this is one of the reasons why I am and was an excellent rodeo photographer.
It is why the next step of my journey whatever maybe will be fine because I have trained my eye to see magic, my hand to know when to press the shutter, and my years of experience to know how to use a camera to its potential to create something magic in mere fractions of a second.
The images above were captured during live events and unstaged moments.