Left Eye Images

The following Gallery is from a working documentary project of mine entitled "Gun LiFe." It encompasses the inordinate ways that we as American put guns to use in society every day from personal protection to sport, military to games.

Sometimes in life one needs to slow things down and view the world at a different speed and thus was the genesis for this project. Bicycling across the country from Portland, Oregon, to New York City, New York, gave new perspective to my world and renewed my faith in man and myself. The over 4,000 mile adventure challenged my entire self physically, mentally and socially and revealed to me a continual generosity in people I had never experienced and only accomplished with the dedicated support of friends and family. This gallery is a work-in-progress and a life-changing three-month project in my life.

This gallery tells the story of Dr. Scott Pike's efforts to bring better eye care to the Ixcan Region of Guatemala.It chronicles the donation of used eyeglasses in the Portland, Oregon, area to a prison for repair and prescribing. Then off to Pacific University where optometry students join Dr. Pike on a trip to the jungle cities in northern Guatemala. His organization Enfoque Ixcan having helped thousands there over the past 12 years to see better, some even requiring surgery provided free of charge.