I have only recently come to realize that I have been looking at the world “Thru The Lens” long before I ever had a camera in my hand. I have so many childhood memories of just bike riding around my neighborhood and would suddenly become halted by a mesmerizing setting. I would look at these scenes as if it were a photograph already. Any moving objects would become still, all the ambient sounds seem to just fade away.

For some reason my eyes always seemed to be drawn to abandoned and desolate sites. I don’t know why, but there is something about the beating a structure endures by “Mother Nature” and “Father Time” that fascinates me. Besides the weathered decay, I love the way nature starts to take over again as you see the weeds growing through the cracks of cement, overtaking a parking lot or walkway of a site until it is barely visible anymore..

I finally purchased my first DSLR in the summer of 2005 with the sole intention of capture these faded and forgotten sites, and for the first two years that is pretty much what I did. At first I had no interest in capturing anything else, but that seemed to change as I wanted to explore more aspects of photography, as you can see in my galleries. I hope you enjoy the images.

Thank you for stopping by,

Pat