There is little I love more than noodling around with imagery except, perhaps, a nice cup tea. Give me a photography challenge, a creative problem to solve, a pile of photo editing or an image research assignment and as long as I have an endless supply of hot, strong, black tea nearby – I’m golden!

I entered my first Scavenger Hunt for Round 3, way back when in early 2012. I credit the Hunt for being the catalyst that set me off down the path to becoming the artist and professional photographer I am today. The genial, competitive spirit of the hunt gives me the encouragement and impetus to continually raise the bar on what I am capable of achieving and I truly love it for that. Now that I’ve stepped back to take a break from competing to help run this organization, I am hoping that my continued enthusiasm for the hunt and its mandate to encourage creativity through the medium of photography will rub off on Scavengers both new and seasoned.

I’ve worked with visual content my entire career, creating 3D imagery for TV titles, commercials, music videos, movies (including Star Wars and Harry Potter) as well as for video games (The Sims!) and I’ve been employed as a Photo Editor on Oracle’s world-class Brand Creative team. I currently run two small businesses – the first as a photographer at www.sambreach.com where I specialize in portraiture. The second is a brand photography agency called Guide & Seek https://www.guideandseek.agency/ that supports businesses by identifying, sourcing and editing pre-existing photographic imagery to align with their brand’s look and feel.

I love dancing, learning new things and conceptual photography and my two favourite branches of magic are baking and Photoshop!