Home Lost at Sea - October 2024 Dallas and Pilot Point, TX HDR DSLR
The Neighborhood Cat - October 2024 Dallas, TX HDR DSLR
Flower Lake - October 2024 Pilot Point, TX HDR of flowers, the lake, moss, and an RV DSLR
Cacti House - October 2024 Denton, TX HDR DSLR
For Sale - September 2024 Dallas, TX HDR of plants, a car for sale, and the owner's home behind it DSLR
Foggy Day - September 2024 Denton, TX HDR of plants, the sky, a house, and other items captured on a walk DSLR
Flower House - September 2024 Denton, TX HDR of plants and a house captured on a walk DSLR
Where is Home? - September 2024 Denton and Plano, TX HDR of plants from my parent's house, a home in Denton, with my cats hidden within the image DSLR
Flower Car - September 2024 Denton, TX HDR car/home and flowers DSLR
Plastic Lake - September 2024 Denton, TX HDR lake landscape, water ripple, branches, leaves DSLR
A Spiders home - September 2024 Denton, TX HDR trees, leaves, foam, spider web DSLR
For this series, I really wanted to focus on my personal interests and create work that genuinely excites me. Throughout my career, I’ve often felt out of place in the photography world, constantly comparing myself to others. I didn’t feel like I had a niche or a unique voice like many of my peers. But I’m tired of comparing myself to others, so I’ve decided to block out what people think and start building my own style—one that truly resonates with me. This shift has helped me feel more connected to the photography community.
My process involves creating spaces that evoke otherworldly feelings using techniques like HDR, layering, and masking. This experimental approach helps me slow down, embrace the creative process, and stay patient with the work. I take my time with editing, being mindful of textures and colors. By combining images of homes, plants, flowers, trees, shadows, clouds—basically anything that catches my eye when out photographing—I build visually intriguing backgrounds. I then layer these with different textures in a painterly way, slowly building up the image until it feels finished.
The result isn’t just visually striking; it’s engaging and mysterious, inviting the viewer to explore and interpret it in their own way. Over time, they start seeing their own illusions in the work, making it personal to them. That’s something I want to keep at the core of my art—provoking emotions and sparking new ways of seeing.