About

From Milton, Florida, looking outwards.

As a young boy, I was given a Diana camera by my grandmother. Those had been given to customers as gifts for their patronage at my grandparent’s hometown Skelly gas station. Many years later, I learned that my grandmother also used a camera often, and I now own Grandma’s old Kodak.

I took a few rolls of photos with that camera in black and white. Recently I looked to see if I still had any of them, but I haven’t found them yet. I have one more place to look.

A coworker years later sold me a used Canon camera. It was a TLb, which is completely manual and required quite a bit of thought on my part to use. There were many failures discovered upon the finished prints, but I kept trying.

When local film processing businesses went away, I was at a stand still. Digital was “not my thing” and I could not wrap my thoughts around going digital. Was I ever wrong!

Nearly two years ago, I completely purged my shelves of all film equipment and used those monetary proceeds to “go digital”. I bought the best system that would not only be easiest to transition to, but would fit my needs now, and in the future. I chose the Nikon mirrorless system to go with, as I am able to immediately see as I am composing my shot exactly what I am going to get in the saved image.

So here I am, in my future, so to speak. This website is definitely out of my comfort zone, and a bit scary. A few people in my life has asked ‘why don’t you go pro?’ I’m not sure if that is the direction I’m heading at the moment, but I won’t get anywhere without a first step.

I want to learn more about photography, experience more, and meet more people with interesting stories. Although you will not see an abundance of it here, I want to move toward portraiture. People in their comfortable place, not mine. Maybe I will take a hundred photos of that one scene, maybe just two or three. I believe in trusting instinct to a degree, and if I am asked to take someone’s portrait, I want to give the best I can.