An avid outdoorsman, Brendan synthesizes his passions for field & stream, athletics, and adventure, creating images that convey the grandeur and rugged beauty of wild spaces, along with the plants and animals living in them. From the diverse ecotones of Texas to the microclimates and monuments of California, Brendan's images range from conveying beautiful intricacies from the macro world of flowers and insects to the awe inspiring vistas of Yosemite, Rancho el Sur, and the Golden Gate. 

 

  Descended from three generations of visual artists. Brendan took an early interest in photography: a riverscape, taken with his mother's 5MP Kodak, won his school's Earth Day photo contest when he was in third grade. Brendan became a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholar in September of 2013. In 2014 he pursued artistic, academic, and athletic interests at a summer institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and he

is currently a student at Fort Worth Country Day School in Texas.