Nashville's River Canvas Print

With all of the music that comes out of this town, we are really very laid back, very relaxed. This photograph was actual commissioned by friends whose river home was flooded during the flood of 2009. Once their home was rebuilt, they asked for me to shoot the river (Cumberland River) lest they never forget what it is capable of. I shot this skyline but featured the river in the foreground. It hangs in their river home.

Photography presented my first opportunity to create visuals that communicated. As a film director, I owe my composition and love for lighting to my late teen years when I finally owned my first SLR, experimenting with no concern for how I would pay for the process and printing. I was fortunate to have grown up in a Latin country and later had many opportunities to travel to more than 30 countries world-wide for film/video production, and always took time to shoot stills while there. I have "communicated" with people of many cultures whose language I did not speak, because I could visually tell a story. My goal is to capture, be it for motion picture or a single frame, a story that may not otherwise be told.