A few days before I was scheduled to fly to California for photography training with nationally renowned, photographers, Ray Soemarsono and Erwin Darmali of Apertura Photography, my wife and I had dinner in Washington, DC’s Chinatown district. After eating we cracked open our fortune cookie and mine read…”You will be traveling and come into a fortune.” I knew I would be traveling, so I kept that fortune in my wallet to look for whatever signs might lead me to this said “fortune.” I am not sure what type of person you are, but I am a person that believes in signs – perhaps because I am a visual person not really sure. All I know is I can fill a notebook with various signs I have experienced throughout my life and can tell you some crazy stories that have save my life, challenged me, and changed me. In any case, I kept it and packed my bags for California.

The flight to California from Dulles is pretty long and I honestly get tired of listening to music for that long, so I actually listen to audio books. I know that might sound kinda corny, but oh well I listen to audio books. Recently, I have been really involved with Eric Jerome Dickey’s “Gideon Novels.” I was on the latest installment – the fourth book, “Resurrecting Midnight.” Somewhere in between Salt Lake City, Utah and Arizona, I came across a passage that struck me. It was a passage from the book that stated, “Every man is the architect of his own fortune..fortune favors the bold.” As soon as I heard this my expression quickly motioned to a smile. That was it! It was all clear in that moment. I knew why that particular fortune cookie crossed my path and I knew where my fortune was. My legs were jumping in anticipation to get to Corona, to get to Apertura, to train, to ask a question, to get an answer, to make clear what always was there but to hazy to see.

The best way to explain it is to show you. So stay tuned why my site morphs and photos speak…