When you’re only 37 and you’re already one of the most respected photographers in the country (so much that you’re the first person EVER Nikon trusted to test and play with one of their most anticipated products, the D90) and has already won a handful of awards, then you can safely say that you’re a very successful man.

But not if you’re as down-to-earth as Advertising Photographers of America (which describes him as an “innovative thinker with his head completely up in the sky”) in Action, Sports and Adventure category for not just one, and not even two, but four years (2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008), or if you’re the youngest photographer to be named