Window of Morris Performing Arts Center -- South Bend Baby Onesie

This window detail of the vintage theater in South Bend, Indiana shows its Art Deco origins. The Morris Performing Arts center was an old Vaudeville house and was built in 1921. It overlooks the St. Joseph River.

I’ve been capturing images that tickle my brain ever since my parents handed me my first camera in 4th grade- a well-loved old Brownie Starflex. My “thing” is lighting—the more natural, the better. Back-lighting and worm’s-eye-views have become near-obsessions. As an art major at Goshen College years ago, the best advice I got there from a favorite professor was to “Play with it!”... sage advice which I still follow today. This may mean lying down in a ditch to see some brown-eyed Susans from below, and there’s the fun. My greatest joy in photography is its way of etching moments in my memory. That singular ray of light or fabulous color which would otherwise get forgotten becomes like an old friend when I process or view the image...