As a child he cut paths in the woods near his Winston Salem home, picking up turtles, frogs, snakes and even climbed up trees to bring home baby birds as pets, much to the chagrin of his parents who weren't really keen on having all these critters become pets.
Years later Eric decided to bring these critters home on film and not as pets. Eric started photographing wildlife in the late eighties. By now, the kicking and screaming had stopped. The camera was an extension of Eric and he had found his passion in life.
By the early nineties Eric was playing hooky from work to spend hours by lakes and streams to photograph anything nature had to offer on any given day.
Wanting to grow as a photographer and hone his photographic technical skills, Eric enrolled at Guilford Technical Community College in 1995, taking photography classes and earned a Certificate in Photography that year.
Realizing he needed a more decisive direction and more than just a certificate, Eric enrolled into Randolph Community College's prestigious photography program in 1996. In 1998 Eric graduated with an Associates Degree in the Applied Science of Photography in Photojournalism.
Over the next ten years Eric worked as a photojournalist covering everything from the natural disasters of Hurricanes, Floyd, Dennis and Isabel, to the electricity of a Carolina Panthers football game.
In 2005, Eric photographed his first wedding. He soon realized that wedding photography was very much like photojournalism and that the moments that make a wedding special were also split second situations just like the split second plays in sports photography.
This brings us to the present. Eric's career is now in wedding photography, and he spends his free time photographing the things that bring him peace in life...the summer's night thunder storm, the flight of an osprey, or the abstracts found in the snow covered trees in the Caroway Mountains near his home in Asheboro, North Carolina.