About

About

Thanks for visiting my site. A photographer based in Atlanta, GA USA, I started this photoblog to share the output of my passion. I have found that I post my photos more for the aspect of community and the friends that I have made through this site than for any critiques on my images.

I photograph because I have a passion for it. It’s that simple.

I have struggled in the past to find the right words to describe what drives much of my art. And then I read an article on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi: finding magic in the ordinary…in the flawed. As Leonard Loren said: “Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things unconventional.” Wabi-sabi is what I seek when I explore an abandoned factory or walk the streets of a city or find a deserted house in a field.

“Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things.”Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence, by Andrew Juniper

I shoot with a growing arsenal of film cameras, ranging from high precision cameras with multiple lenses to cheap plastic cameras to a pinhole camera. I have a digital SLR that works quite well, but I just don’t use it that much anymore. I love developing film and working in the darkroom, getting my hands wet so to speak. There is something magical about creating images in the analog world, and I just don’t get that same feeling with digital. However, you might find images on here from a digital camera.

Although I got my first film SLR in high school, it wasn’t until several years ago that I got very serious about photography. I got back into photography to record my travels, but it grew into a real passion as I realized that photography satisfied creative needs that I initially wasn’t aware that I had. I lose time when I put a camera up to my eye. The world can just fall away except the scene in my viewfinder.

My equipment

  • Hasselblad 501CM chrome
  • Pentax 67 camera
  • Yashica Mat 124 TLR
  • Ansco Super Speedex folder
  • 3 Holga 120Ns + Polaroid back
  • Diana+
  • Diana #151
  • Banier, Diana clone
  • Agfa Clack
  • Ilford Sporti
  • Golden Half
  • Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim
  • Great Wall DF-2
  • Zero Image Multi-Format Zone Plate
  • Pinhole PinHolga
  • Lomo LC-A+
  • Kodak Duaflex
  • Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
  • Ansco Anscoflex II
  • Polaroid SX-70 Sonar
  • Polaroid 600SE
  • Mamiya 645 Super
  • Mamiya Super 23 Press
  • Canon Elan 7e
  • Canon EOS 20D dSLR