I feel like being a photographic artist is a bit like being a magician.  When I look around me, I don’t see what “is”.  I see what “can be” using a little bit of creative capture with my camera ~ and I “trick” my viewer into seeing reality through the eye of my lens.  I don’t just stop with photographic capture.  I digitally “paint” or manipulate the things that I capture into something else entirely.  Sometimes it looks similar to what the eye sees.  Sometimes it becomes something else entirely. My art begins with reality. It ends with imagination.