I didn’t truly dedicate myself to the art of photography until 2003 when I purchased my first digital camera. The pursuit of photography has taught me a great deal about patience, respect, and the commitment to self expression. My respect for nature, and my interaction with it, has profoundly changed my life. Simply stated, photography introduced me into this world in a way that no other art form could have. For this, I am completely grateful.
I was born and raised in California, I have a definitive admiration for this state. It is a disappearing beauty, despite the courageous attempts by the loyal to preserve it. No where else on earth can you go from the desert, to mountain peaks, to the sandy shores of the coastline all in a day’s drive. However,in just a tick of geological time California will be long overrun by industry, mankind, and evolution, and only photographs will remain to remember her.

I believe great photographs need no explanation, nor do they need a qualified critics. Photographs, like music, are a universal language. Rare and challenging as great photographs may be, I am committed to pursuing them.

Currently, I am aggressively pushing my own creative limits and will continue to find new subjects and styles of expression at will. Progress, in all categories, is truly my greatest focus.

Photography can tell a story, instill emotion, and educate us. Its simplicity is its greatest challenge, and also its' greatest triumph.

My website is always a work in progress, as well as a progress of my proudest work. It is dedicated to the loving memory of my mother, Deanna.

Bless her wonderful soul.

I extend gratitude to all of you whom have helped me to chase the personal dream of being a photographer. You all know who you are.

-C.Garrard