About Terry

The first step toward creative photography is to see with love in ones heart, that is vision clarified. To recall a moment from a dream, manifest the moment into a piece of reality and then share with the rest of the world to see. For me photography is proof that tragedy is the seed from which a greater love grows, one can only fly as high as they have been drug down low in the depths of loss and pain, that is where the wings of understanding lay.

In late August 1998 when I was 23 and trying to figure out a way to make a living mountain biking or small mouth bass fishing. I made a random stop into a pawn shop and purchased a used Canon Rebel even though I knew absolutely nothing about photography. The first time I photographed a sunset from a bluff top above the Arkansas River the waters of my existence no longer murky instantly as clear as Richland Creek in the summertime. I told myself I have a lot of catching up to do and photographed with reckless abandon. If I do not tell you this then you cannot really see, and you cannot truly feel, or hear the voices in the frame of the calm and the still.