The First Posts...

The first time I played "photographer" was at summer camp. Camp Shamrock in Chelsea, MI, to be exact. I ran around with my cabin mates; at the beach, a hike on the hill, running scared past the "old hermit cabin", a walk to an old cemetery. I took shot after shot. I think I was using a $10 camera with actual film in it. I was about 12 years old. I was sure my parents would love all the pictures of old gravestones, my friends, the woods...

Unfortunately, I forgot the cheap little camera at camp when I left and never saw one photo. Maybe thats when I really started to think about images and how they could look from my perspective. I imagined that someone would find the little $10 camera. They would develop the film and realize it was mine. They would follow every avenue to find me and return the pictures and the camera. We would sit for hours and talk about why I took each one, what it meant, where each thing was, etc... Well, that never happened but I liked to think it could.

I've taken a lot of pictures since then. Many were simply to catalog a moment with friends or family. Some were for me to remember certain times of my life. Some pictures were taken for other people to remember their friends or family. I always hope each image conveys the way I saw that thing or person at the time. I prefer candid shots of people over posed. I like ethereal editing for a dull natural shot. I try not to shoot things dead on.

I hope you enjoy the images I post here. Please leave comments. I love to hear what people think of what I see. Thanks~