As a young child growing up in The Catskill Mountains of New York state, I spent a lot of time running around the miles of wilderness in my backyard. I was always on the lookout for the perfect paradise landscape. It wasn’t till I moved to North Carolina and started exploring the Southern Appalachians such as Linville Gorge that I began to see the landscape with new eyes and found that paradise was there all along waiting to be discovered wherever I went. I began trying to capture and translate what I saw onto film. That was the beginning. When I was 18, I...more
