Categories rant

Buy a house.

The perfect antidote to the desire to buy a house is the process of buying a house. My process so far certainly hasn’t been standard, but even the best of sales seem to take their toll. You spend a large amount of time looking through listings and going on tours, Continue Reading

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Photography Quotes

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. – Ansel Adams These are the two basic controls at the photographer’s command: Continue Reading

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immerse

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I’m human. It’s the same thing when I’m behind a camera. I forget I exist. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Categories self-improvement

Tools

In my time with Heidi, I picked up a lot of practical experience in home repair, construction, etc. And by association, the incentive to do such work. (It had never really been an issue in my life before, since I’d lived in rental space my whole life.) I built things Continue Reading

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From the Archives

(Reprocessing some photos from an old shoot. Had seen them in the archives, and knew I could make them look much better.)

Categories friends

Contrast

The two most recent photos in my flickr feed. I find the juxtaposition kind of funny. I like my life. I love ‘my’ women.

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Coal

When I got my first real, paying job, probably my biggest expense was film developing. I never really gave it much thought at the time, but I loved riding my bike around town and taking photos. Wouldn’t be at all abnormal now, with our camera obsessed culture. But back then, Continue Reading