For years, I wore my camera like an article of clothing.
Eventually, it felt like a part of me.
Friends and family became comfortable with my five-pound neck amulet & due to this,
I was granted the freedom to capture unprepared & unexpected truths in a second.
The unexplored angles of the natural world and my cameras manual focus, which contains the zoom power of a decent science class microscope, became the best of friends.
My studies in photography forced me to see lighting and feel out timing in a whole new way. Camera work was meditative & strangely enlightening, for me, it still is.
With a new found appreciation & deepened awareness of space & time, the mechanical considerations, the environmental fluctuations & everything in-between, I went out and earned my shots. I was there for that elusive morning daybreak over the Rockies.
I remember that shot because I had to wake up at 3am to get it!
It was me who was hiding behind the couch waiting to capture your expression as you discover the fake snake I hid behind the coffee machine.
I can't help it.
This beautiful machine has become part of me and it wants to explore everything.
-Jack Wire