So, what's the story here?

I started in photography in 1974 while in high school.  At first I fell in love with cameras as instruments of mechanical wonders, and soon after their ability to help me make sense of the chaos of the wide world by organizing it into a frame.

Putting a frame around what I saw in front of me, transformed by the optical properties of a lens, a mundane moment could be extracted from the flow of time itself, and elevated to some thing far more interesting, reduced to two dimensions, a facsimile of life itself, but different and more powerful.

This ability to transform the world around me gave me a way to express how I saw the world, and taught me how to find the things that were most important to me.  The process of choosing what I photographed helped me find my way as a person, to make peace with where I come from and a place in this world.  Without photography, who knows where or what I'd be now.

This was shot in the 1980's on a 4x5 field camera on Polaroid ready-load iso 100 daylight balanced color transparency film. 

In the process of being a photographer for over 30 years, I have found a way to make my images more about the way I see and less about the gear.  In this blog I will discuss more of the nuts and bolts of what I do, and how the gear I chose had a profound influence on the way I worked, and how images looked.  This was especially so in the days of film.  But now, in the age of digital, things are different.

More next time.