I was born in Prague, Czech Republic and lived in Geneva before moving to the United States with my family at the age of 8. After a few years in the California Bay Area we moved to Seattle where I attended high school and the University of Washington. 

My background in in still photography and I got my start rather late, as the photo editor of the college yearbook. After graduating, I moved back to Prague for a few years (like many Americans did!), traveled throughout Europe, freelanced for a variety of publications and worked as photo editor for the Prague Post. 

Upon returning to the states I became a staff photographer at a small daily newspaper in southern New Mexico, where I won numerous awards from the Associated Press, and now I am a wedding photographer and filmmaker based in Santa Fe.

 Years ago I started to recognize the power of video with clips shot with the movie mode of a Fuji 602 digital camera, editing in Adobe Premiere (I have since moved to FCP) and I think it’s kind of funny that it’s actually the movie mode of another still camera, the Canon 5D Mark II, that is now fueling my passion for video!