My interest in photography started as a way to document the beautiful places I would visit when hiking and traveling. While I continue to enjoy shooting nature and landscapes, my artistic passion has become "Creative Energy" itself and the various ways that it affects us all. This can best be explained by describing one particular photograph that I took several years ago at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I was taken with the way that the creative energy of the Del McCoury Band inspired a very old man with a long white beard to get up express himself through dance...this in turn inspired a young hipster to sketch the Dancing Man. It was at this point that the sketch artist inspired me to photograph him and his work in process of the Dancing Man with the band in the background. It was a moment of joy and clarity that I realized that it was the same creative energy moving through the ether motivating and inspiring the artist in each of us!