Just Another Photographer
I’ve been taking photos from the time I was in high school. Over the years I’ve been slowly transitioning from your general snap-shot shooter to a more thoughtful and hopefully artful photographer.
Gates of Mekelle #5
When I started this project I was inspired by the well designed and detailed gates on many of the houses in Mekelle, but I was also attracted to the simpler make-shift gates.
Personal Project – Instagram the World
I find it hard to get back on the computer at a decent hour to work on editing and culling the too many photos. I do find that I'm happy to sit on the couch with my tablet. Enter Instagram. Add in the nostalgic feelings for the year that Tracy and I traveled, and...
Gates of Mekelle #4
There is something about being in a foreign country and having you're camera out that attracts local models to stand in front your lens. I've never had this happen when taking pictures here at home. I think we are far more suspicious here in Canada and North America.
Gates of Mekelle #3
When I created these images back in 2005 the digital camera landscape was very different from today. First DSLRs were very, very expensive in excess of $3000, in fact the Nikon 5700 digital camera that I traveled with cost me $2000.00 and shot 6 megapixels. Even...
Gates of Mekelle #2
Just because I know you've been wondering if I was ever going to do this project or not. One of the hardest things about starting a blog of any kind is getting used to writing regularly. I'm terrible at this (no surprise). What attracted me to this photo project over...
Personal Project: Gates of Mekelle
I can't count how many times I've heard professional photographers say how important it is to have personal photography projects outside of their day-t0-day work. In fact I think it also important for us amateur and hobby photographers to do the same. If you're like...
October 25, 2004…The day I invented the selfie!
Back in the fall of 2004 I was doing a lot of stuff for the first time and with only a small amount of pre-planning. As an example I didn't really know that I needed to purchase a ticket from a kiosk in order to ride the train from the airport in Amsterdam into actual...
High praise for the lowly snapshot
I've been a member of a local photography club for almost ten years and if I've seen one I've seen a hundred when it comes to the snap-shot. We love to hate this in-bread cousin to 'real' photographs. For full disclosure I take snap-shots, I take them often and I'm...
Just Get Started
Not everything I do gets started right away. I've been procrastinating with this site for at least 4-5 months. I've tried different themes and looked at different plugins that I think might work. During all that time I refused to get the site up live on the inter-webs...