Hello my name is Billy. I love to make people laugh. I am a magician and comedian by trade, but all jokes aside, my photography interest came by accident...
I was determined to quite smoking my two plus packs of cigarettes a day. On April 16, 2009 I put down my last cigarette. However, I soon realized that I needed to replace it with some sort of positive hobby to keep my hands and my mind occupied. It also didn't help that I was unemployed during that time. Every moment that I got the urge to smoke I would snap a picture instead.
Needless to say that within the first six months I exceeded in shots what I would have actually smoked, had it been cigarettes. I also put a photo video together of my work called: "10,000 To Zero", which can be found on YouTube at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPV9k6… .
The name AmvoyPhotog was derived as I began to try to develop and figure out my style of photography. I often enjoy shooting from a voyeuristic and often lurking ambush-type of scenarios, while also utilizing high and low camera angle perspectives. I am encouraged and inspired to "be different" by the artistic work of past photographers like Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and modern day greats like Alex Prager and Andrew Goldsworthy, just to name a few.
I love a wide array of shooting, but my favorite is URBEX and architecture. I love the history behind the abandoned buildings that I visit. I enjoy the allure of what may or may not be around the next darkened corner. I also like the fact that when I shoot at these types of places that I feel the emotion behind the lives that were once there.
Photography so far as afforded me to become the creative person I have become. All because I replaced a negativity in my life with some great positive potential in something that I thoroughly love and enjoy.
I hope you will take time to look through my gallery - THANKS!
Current Residence: Hershey , Pennsylvania - Chocolate town U.S.A.
deviantWEAR sizing preference: Large
Favourite genre of music: A very broad genre from Bach to Korn I love it all
Favourite photographer: Andrew Goldsworthy
Operating System: Windows 7
Personal Quote: "Laugh a lot and Smile often."