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About Me

I began digital photography in September 2005 after purchasing my first digital SLR. Encouraged to start a blog by my friend Paul, my original goal was to take a new shot every day.

Rather than posting once a day, I will post only when I feel an image represents the best I can achieve and convey what I believe reveals something about my subject. Some images will be pretty to the eye, others disturbing and some difficult to understand. I’m trying to capture the whole range of my view of humanity, because in my mind all of it deserves to be illustrated.

A native Californian, with my original roots in Southern California, I’ve called San Francisco my home for 29 years. Although I am new to the digital world, I did have an interest in film photography as a youngster. During my high school years I took portraits of other high school students to make some extra money. Having a darkroom at home and developing prints was great fun and I look back fondly at those days.

In my first days of photography, my son developed his own budding lust for imagery. Just after finishing his homework, he announced that he was going out to photograph a building in the area. Being a bit suspicious of a teenage boy going out on a school night I asked if he was going to meet someone. He simply stated, “No dad, I want to shoot that building by the lake.” I asked if I could come along and that night, in that moment, we shared a bond built from a common passion. The photograph I took that night will be treasured not for the image, but for the moment.