About

Who I am:
I love God, it’s that simple. It’s the foundation of my life, every decision I make, everything I do. He has blessed me with many talents, I am amazingly blessed. but don’t take my word for it, watch my life and then you’ll know if I truly live for God.

Biography:
I’m the son of my parents Tim & Lynn Collins, I have three sisters(1 older, 2 younger.)
Spent my early growing up years in Collinsville IL. then we moved to the close by town of Belleville IL. then to Broken Arrow, OK. and finally to my current home in Wheaton IL.

I love love LOVE to create. I use pretty much any medium I can find that is most effective for the idea in my head.
Everything from abstract paintings on canvas. Digital art using a tablet and photoshop. Music where I play a bit of guitar and drums, and more recently starting to write and record songs. Photography, where there’s that amazing ability to capture a moment or emotion in my own unique way. Video, where you can tell a story in a way that can be shared with limitless people.  Even more hands on things like refinishing a beat up guitar to make it shine, or constructing custom furniture for my room, even sculptures.
The most recent thing I’m starting to explore is constructing a guitar from scratch, it’s sort of like making a functional sculpture, which is a interesting challenge.

On the financial side of things:
I work part time for my church doing things like video and audio, design, building and maintaining the website.
Own and operate a few random businesses with my business partner Matt Swanson, working on some specialized custom design projects.
Offer a wedding album design service, designing albums specifically for other professional photographers who don’t have the time or desire to design the albums themselves.
Other than those, I photograph the occasional wedding, do high end custom design projects, pretty much whatever comes across my path, and seems interesting.