Motion.  Shadows.  Light.  Storytelling.  These are the things that first drew me to Cinematography so many years ago.  From a young age I loved movies but it never occurred to me that one could make a living creating them.  As a freshman in college, studying pre-med at the University of Hawaii, I stumbled across an article in Premiere magazine about film school.  You can get a degree in this!? I then transferred to UC Santa Cruz where I received a Bachelors degree in Film and Theater.

Degree in hand, I moved to L.A. where I attended another film school, the set of “True Lies”.  In between making coffee and copies, and I hovered around the camera department learning all I could.  When the film was finished I became an A.C., working my way up through the ranks from loader to focus puller.  Along the way I got a chance to work with such luminaries as John Frankenheimer, Kathryn Bigelow,  Kevin Spacey, Thomas Newton Siegal A.S.C., Russell Carpenter ASC, and Bill Butler ASC. 

In 2002, I hung up my tape measure to work for Catherine Hardwicke as 2^nd Unit DP/BCAM operator on the film “thirteen” (lensed by Elliot Davis).   Since that time I have  shot numerous features, T.V. shows, documentaries, and commercials.  “Drool”, my sixth feature has won awards in Miami, Barcalona, Los Angeles, and Montreal.

From  shooting  indie features to rockets in the Marshall Islands, the one constant is my attention to composition and lighting.  I am well versed in all of the latest technology and I am as at home using a Panavison Millennium, a RED or the Canon 5d MKII.  Whatever the project originates on, I can create beautiful images.