As of publication, the overwhelming majority of the pics on the site were obtained using an old Pentax K1000. Despite the amazing digital technology available nowadays, I still believe that camera to be one of the most reliable, pound for pound worthwhile cameras ever to be manufactured. It has no computers, no flash, no.... nothing. Basically just a box with a hole in it, but it is such a great camera because looking through that viewfinder, what you see is exactly what you get. No algorithms to adjust the image, no internal buffers- just the image. When you click the shutter you already know if what you just shot is brilliant or rubbish.

For awhile I was working with a Minolta APS. I liked the small size and portability of it, and it made some decent images, but just wasn't as reliable as the Pentax. I stopped using it about four years ago, and truthfully can't even remember what type it was.

Pretty recently I finally bit the bullet and bought a professional level digital SLR, the Canon D60.. Canon's D30/D60 lines have more or less revolutionized photography. Both Canon and Nikon continue to produce amazing digital cameras capable of using multiple lens lines and producing digital images that are, for the most part, indistinguishable from film. I can't see, right now at least, ever returning to a film camera.

It's been a dream of mine for awhile now to be able to store images online so that others could readily see them, and so that the images were preserved in a permanent way. This site has grown out of a slowly growing comfort level I have with web design as well as a lot of help from friends.

The title 10 Years of Photos more or less reflects how long I have been pursuing photography to some serious degree, as well as the time it has taken to amass the 80 or so images I have on here as of Feb '03. If you do the math, that means I am getting about 8 images a year that I actually like enough to keep and work with. I would estimate that for each picture on here, probably 200 have been abandoned. I am not sure if I am proud of that figure, or disgraced, but- that's photography.

Back in high school I was pretty heavily involved in the art program. I used to do a lot of watercolors, airbrushing and charcoal work. After a few years of working on these different media, I began to become frustrated with how little my physical skills were progressing. Mainly my frustration stemmed from my ability to see what I wanted to do in my head, but losing it between there and the canvas. I turned to photography as a way to be able to get the images I had in my mind's eye onto paper for others.

I entered college as an art major, and though I pretty quickly took up Biology as a major, I stuck with photography as a hobby. The thing that is so great about photography is that it yields... unlike the more traditional arts. Try your whole life, you may not be able to draw a human hand so that it actually looks like a human hand. But understand the physics of a camera lens, and a little about how light actually works... and photography can capture whatever you want it to. With the advent of the digital darkroom, professional quality digital SLR cameras and affordable photo quality printers, there are really no limits as to what you can do.