Each moment we live is a gift and there are moments that I capture with my lens that I can savor and share - that's how I view my photography - whether it is strait shooting or images I dreamed up from reality into fantasy - it is a sharing of hearts and minds. Sometimes I translate what my heart sees through brushes onto canvas and then I share color - color that grabs you by the eyeballs and swings you around. I believe that being happy is a choice, I choose to be happy every day and it my inner happiness that I express on my canvases.