I have had an interest in photography for most of my life. As with most relationships in one's life it was a relationship of ebb and flow. During college I studied philosophy and my focus on photography waned. I ended up graduating with a philosophy degree, thus making me a philosopher by training. As with most 20-something males in Portland, OR in the late 90s, I ended up being a techie by trade. After graduating college, I quickly found that discussions of aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology were not normal corporate America conversations. In 1999, the philosopher gave way to the artist as I chose to embrace the artist in myself as a mechanism to remain a balanced human. Since then, the philosopher has waned and the artist has grown. Although the philosopher and the artist are always in conflict, as I experience their juxtaposed perceptions of the world. I bring these conflicting interpretations of the world to my photography. In the end, I am a philosopher with a camera.