About
Long story short - I am a graphic design who owns a design and online marketing company. I’ve shot commercial photography for nearly 20 years alongside my design work. Over the past 10 years I’ve shot executive portraiture, editorial, product and personal portrait photography in the Phoenix, AZ area. As my design business grew I stopped shooting work commercially. Now I primarily shoot fine art work for pleasure, and for stock. This blog is a catchall that chronicles shoots, discoveries and the world of photography in general.
Here’s a few cliff notes I’ll one day update, or likely cover in regular posts.
Gear:
I’ve always shot Nikon stuff for 35mm
35 mm evolution
FMII > N90 > D70 > D300
I’ve been highly unimpressed with Nikon’s point and shoot line and have had a couple Canon point and shoot digitals that are very good.
Mamiya RZ67 (Sad this is worth almost nothing now, it was/is in incredible camera and piece of engineering)
4×5 Rail cam with Nikon optics - I love shooting large format stuff. I miss it.
Some of my best work has been shot on Polaroid film, particularly SX70. I’m so sad the Polaroid era has ended. The instantaneous feedback of digital is sort of the same, but not really.
I’ve done a lot with alternative processes - cyanotype, palladium/platinum, van dyke brown, gum, etc.
Loved shooting really old / odd cameras. Again, something missed now in the filmless era.
I use Flickr.
I sell stock through Alamy.
Have tried Cafepress to sell prints.
I use a Mac + Aperture for management.
I’ve shot a lot of live music in SoCal for a lot of years.
Favorite photogs - to name just a few: Weston, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach, David Levinthal, Richard Avedon
