I’ve spent thirteen years teaching people to see — first through a camera, then through a design grid, and eventually through the gears and code of a competition robot.
Photography came first. I liked that it forced me to slow down and actually look at things. Design followed, because I wanted to build the images, not just capture them. Then robotics found me in the classroom, and I discovered the same thrill in watching a student debug their way to a working bot that I’d felt the first time a photograph came out exactly right.
That’s the thread through all of it: the moment an idea stops being an idea and starts being real. It’s why I still teach, still shoot, still mentor teams into the late evenings before a competition.
When I’m not doing any of that, I’m in the gym a few mornings a week, or out somewhere with a camera looking for decent light.
If you want to make something — an image, a brand, a stronger robotics program — I’m glad you found your way here.