A lot of times I get asked how I got into photography or why I’m a photographer.  One of the things that really influences me is history … especially family history.  Some of my most cherished possessions are the family photos that were willed to me when my parents died.  I have photos dating back to the late 1800s, both of my father’s and my mother’s family.  But some of my most cherished are those of my grandmother (my mother’s mother) who was a true 1920′s flapper.  She danced on the stage in San Francisco in 1929, and was a model for the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1930s.

I hope that someday some woman will look back on photos I’ve taken the way I look back on these of my grandmother and feel the same connection. It’s what motivates me as a photographer.