Long Miles For Moments That Make My Heart Sing.

Travel is more than a change of scenery.

It is one of the most important forces in human development. Every journey expands the edges of our understanding, challenges our biases, and teaches us to see the world and ourselves from new angles. Walking unfamiliar streets, bartering in languages you don’t speak, tasting food born from centuries of tradition… these experiences improve us. They break the shell of the familiar and invite in empathy, perspective, and wonder. As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

My travel work blends instinct with intention. Some frames are captured in the heat of the moment, an editorial “fire from the hip” style that freezes fleeting glances, unplanned passions, and those rare seconds when subject and light fall perfectly into place. Others are methodical compositions: deliberate, polished hero frames that capture a place as I remember it in my dreams. These often come after thankless 4 a.m. wake-up calls, long hikes into the mountains, and hours spent in freezing air waiting for the light to break exactly as I imagined it… or break my heart by hiding behind the clouds, where I then long for it by returning again and again like a love-struck goat mindlessly trekking uphill.

My goal is to tell stories about the human need to explore what lies beyond. It’s more than documenting geography. Whether it’s the soft glow of dawn over the engineering marvels of Venice’s canals or the silent, snow-beared face of Mount Fuji hoarding a stockpile of ancient secrets, the work is to keep the wanderlust alive long after the journey ends, when we’re old and writing are own version of “There and Back Again.”

PS I will never turn down an opening to insert a Tolkien reference.