I'm not just a photographer...

I didn't take this picture either...

I guess I have a confession to make. I'm not solely a photographer. In fact, I have another passion in life that I think about and study just as much as photography. I dance. I dance so much that it even shows up in my other artwork. I photograph dance; I paint dance; I sculpt dance. I can almost guarantee that if you stopped me on the quarter mile I would be thinking about something dance related, whether it's going over choreography in my head, or figuring out the next place to travel to in order to dance. A lot of people think it's weird that I travel places to dance. Which I guess it is... here's the deal:

I swing dance. I'm really involved in this thing called West Coast Swing. It's a smoother, sexier version of swing than what your grandparents danced back in the 20s, although it was based from that. It's cool because I can dance to pretty much any song in 4/4 time. So you can listen to such a wide variety of music including pop, blues, hip-hop, and jazz. It's so much fun. Over the summer, I partnered up with someone and we decide that we were going to put a swing routine together to compete with. See that's the other thing, I don't just dance, I compete...all over the United States. Anyway, for New Year's Eve, we choreographed a routine, traveled to Boston and performed it. It was so much hard work, but it really paid off. We ended up placing second out of 6 couples. And I have my routine on video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ClO067Nefhc

We are still working out a lot of the kinks. We had only really put about 3 weeks of work into the routine you see. That's an extremely small amount of time in the dance world. Most amateurs put a few months of work into a routine before getting it out on the floor. We perform again in March. Wish us luck!