I'm an aerospace and defense entrepreneur that often finds myself in interesting places.
I always bring a camera or two. And sometimes, I capture interesting moments.
A bit more about my photography background
By all reasonable measures, I am a mere amateur photographer, and only take photos for my own enjoyment. When I was about 9 years old, I began film photography with a pinhole camera I made myself from a Quaker oats cardboard can, aluminum foil, and electrical tape. I captured my first few photos of some trees on a few sheets of Arista b&w photo paper - I was hooked.

After picking up an interest, the photography instructor at my father's work graciously offered me use of the darkroom, lessons in exposure, composition, and film chemistry, where I learned all the basics on the Oatmeal can pinhole device. My grandfather then gave me a Canon A-1 and a Yashica TLR medium format. I continued to shoot on those two cameras for the next 12 years.

Around 2010, when it looked like Film photography might die with Kodak's imminent bankruptcy (which occurred 2 years later), I begrudgingly switched to a Digital SLR. I've since added Digital in my skilset, and have come to appreciate it as a medium. Thankfully film has survived and thriving, for the betterment of all practicing phorographers, and the continued enrichment of the work produced by them.

I don’t shoot for clients. I shoot to make a record - places and faces as they were, not how I wish they’d be. Sometimes that’s Florida streets. Sometimes it’s fjords. Sometimes it’s places where the stakes are not theoretical. Either way, the rules are simple: light first, subject honest, composition earned, idea clear. If the picture doesn’t say “I was there,” it doesn’t stay.
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