My first camera was a gift I received when I was about 9 years old. It was a tiny point-and-shoot camera using 110 film. For many years, I continued using point-and-shoot film cameras. They were all I needed. I shot just to capture moments, spontaneous images of life, nothing fancy. When the digital camera was introduced and social media gained traction in our world, I thought about buying one. Instead, I settled for an iPhone. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a camera when I can spend less on a phone that can also take photos?

In 2010, I had a huge reversion, an unlikely return to the Catholic Church. Two years later, I met my future wife, and she saw my love for photography and pushed me to buy a proper camera instead of using a phone. I say all this because even though I had a small love for photography, I really had no direction on what to photograph. That brings me to 2014, May 10th... I was finally received fully into the Church. And I realized I knew what I wanted to photograph... the beauty of what I experienced. The beautiful liturgies, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Ordinations, Chrism masses, etc. I realized my iPhone captures weren't really doing the job. So I caved in and bought my first DSLR. Now my question to myself was how to capture the faith life that I so desperately want to share? Taking photos of a church building is quite boring. I wanted to capture the faith in action. The emotions. The people I met. I researched Catholic images, Catholic photographers, and that is where I found Jeffrey Bruno. I realized that his way of capturing the faith is what I was looking for. It was a sure motivator. I wanted to capture the faith of Jesus' bride, the Church, and it seemed the Holy Spirit guided me to this New York photographer. So, all that to bring me to this photo my wife captured of Jeffrey and me. I finally got to meet him. And all I want to do now is pick up a camera and go out to where the Holy Spirit takes me to share the faith.