Arrowphotography is more of an idea right now than an actual functioning company.
Currently, I am a career firefighter. My interest in photography started when I was just 12 years old. I discovered the incredible work of Ansel Adams and fell in love with the beauty of our earth as seen through his camera lens. I also find inspiration from members of his peer group, the focus 64 group. Within the past few years I have begun to realize that I would like my passion for artistic photography to become my second career. I realize now that I need to "kick it up a notch" and fine tune the artistic craft I have chosen to express how I view the world.
The name Arrowphotography is actually a play on the words "arrow maker" which comes from my adopted family's Japanese heritage. Our family crest, or mon in Japanese, is two white arrow fletchings on a black backdrop surrounded by a white circle. Japanese family crests were symbol of a family's status and sometimes their occupation. It is speculated that our family crest was created because of our family's antient heritage of being the arrow tenders for the local shogun's armies.
Recently during research on our mon I learned that family crests were at one time a symbol of Japanese royality and landowners, however, within the last few hundred years the crests have become more commonplace and can be found throughout Japan as a design element. Families adopt a crest and then often modify the crest slightly as each new generation comes along.
The kanji script, that will be on this site soon, is my family's name in
Japanese. I proud of my father and all that he has tried to
impart in me. Thank you, Dad.