When you get the opportunity to take in introduction flight in an F-16, you don't turn it down. In fact, you hire someone to photograph the event for posterity. Which is exactly what the gentleman here, Sheriff Leon Lott, did. I attempted to weasel my way into another F-16 by trying to convince everyone that an airborne, plane to plane shot, would be essential to the series. Sadly, everyone at the airbase seemed intent on cheating me out of a flight. So I had to do the best I could from the ground.
I was hired to shoot the 2008 Calendar for the Richland County Sheriff's Department. The theme was "Department in Action." Shooting took several months, but the results were worth the effort.
Like all passions in life, photography is a journey. For me, it is a journey that winds through the lives of others and leaves behind the welcome footprints of photographs.
Perhaps it is vanity, or maybe just hope that in the future, my images will be fondly shared with the children of those I photograph.