I was born in Beaumont Texas in 1981, the second son of Syrian immigrants. I grew up in Northern California. After working as a real estate developer for several years I started a second career in photography. My favorite thing to photograph is a blizzard. They’re stunning. Plus you get the whole place to yourself because everyone goes inside. And there’s an element of danger during a blizzard which you can feel in the pictures. Most of my photographs are straight out of the camera. No editing. No color grading. No enhancements. What you see is what I saw.