After seeing the works of John Fielder in my early days as a fledgling photographer it inspired me to take it further, after all I already had the artist blood in me and photography was just the natural progression. After John Fielder I was inspired further into the fine art side of photography by the legends of Edward Weston and Eliot Porter and with the late yet still contemporary Galen Rowell. I also continue studying the arts of classic landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, William Turner and the modern art scene to keep my artistic senses fresh. Most of my photographic skills have been developed by trial and error, with it being mostly error. I have also read as many books on photography as I could to get tips, and have asked everyone who does this for a living as many questions that I can think of. I am always looking for out-of-the-way scenic places in Colorado that I feel are truly worth sharing to the world, and believe me there are countless places in Colorado that are like this. I could spend the rest of my life hiking and backpacking and 4-wheeling this great state and still not discover all the wonderfully sublime places this state has to offer. Whether it's a back country campground, or an open meadow in the mountains, or maybe a little known canyon or creek or one of the several thousand mountain peaks that exceed 10,000 feet, there is too much this state offers to list. My quest to experience nature at it's greatest will always be an adventure. No matter how great people have said about other places around the world, my quest is here in Colorado, where there is plenty of everything that is found around the globe in my own back yard.