Don't let life pass you by. 

Fleeting Moments is a portrait series that studies the in-between expressions that usually go unnoticed - the moments following a joke, the instantaneous reaction to direction, and the glimmer of genuine connection that flickers away as swiftly as it appeared. These portraits capture my friends and fellow photographers in a moment of intention within those short and unscripted periods. Instead of posing them in the way most might create a portrait, I asked them to move, laugh, or react to spontaneous stimuli, and let their personas bubble up through movement and spontaneity.

The project highlights how digitally mediated photography can capture something that is, by nature, ephemeral. I wanted every image to come from momentary interactions rather than a formal portrait session. It was those interactions, the spontaneity, that became the subject. Not just the person or people in front of the camera, but the mutual energy and humor all around photographing someone. 

In post-production I took subtle and deliberate digital actions to enhance that feeling of transience. Some slight adjustments to color balance and lighting, add brightness and texture to every photograph, and each moment feels cinematic and present — as if the viewer is peering into a moment that may dissipate at any moment. The act of editing became an extension of transience, rather than a remedy for the fleetingness. 

This is a set of photographs that I am sharing on a web platform that is modeled after the impermanence of life - if you don't focus, it'll pass you by. I encourage viewers to interact briefly, to remind us how fleeting moments — and memories — enter our lives and are gone. This endeavor is really a meditation on presence, humor, and beauty in the non-permanence of things.

This website is on a timer, and will be deleted in just a few months. Stay awhile and enjoy it while its here.