I started my event photography and fine print arts business a decade ago, and a world apart from my life today. After I moved to New York from rural Virginia as an aspiring photographer, I soon found myself working as a barista. I felt such enthusiasm for that job - and for hearing the stories of all the characters I met serving coffee - that it inspired me to work a little harder to fulfill my creative call and get out on to the sidewalks of West Broadway in SoHo to sell the images I had created through my travels and experiences living in New York.

Etsy has given many other artists a way to share their work work with art lovers all over the world, and I am glad to be now be a part of this great experience - and off the cold streets - by operating this e-shop.

I am drawn to the crisp lines of realistic encounters with nature, architecture and people. Sometimes that crispness is blurred by a passing cloud or the flash of a kid on a skateboard, but in the end that is part of my belief in preserving that exact moment in time. My full time work as a teacher has afforded me many opportunities to travel, which is why you will find among my prints a sunset from South Africa, a wooden dhow from Zanzibar and the Pacific Coast Highway of Southern California. I hope you will feel like you were right next to me or, better still, behind the lens yourself.

Thanks for visiting my Etsy shop, and I hope you can answer the question "why wanderlust?" after taking some of my work in.