Photos pay the bills… but I'm trying to shoot for me again.

Working photog who misses art for art's sake. I also riff on things via a humor blog with (unexpectedly) 150-some-thousand followers. -Instagram-

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Probably the coolest accidental backfocus I've had in 15 years.

Doing detail shots of awards at a shoot... accidentally unlocked a portal into a dimension of tables.

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12:28 PM, September 8th

I'm not even gonna admit how long this took to get just right.

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5:37 PM, September 8th

I appreciate the surroundings of my sister's apartment.

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2:11 PM, September 8th

Seen about 15 minutes before forgetting to buy bagels.

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2:02 PM, September 8th

Actually on vacation, actually shooting for myself!

It feels incredible.

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7:37 PM, September 29th

Easily my favorite "switching to flash, still had the shutter speed too high" test frame of all time.

Don't even recall what event this was. I could check, but... hey, that would ruin the magic.

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8:26 PM, August 16th

Light was fading on a long walk with family back to the Airbnb, but I just had to run across the street, climb some broken stairs, and shoot over a fence for this.

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11:36 AM, August 19th

I remember the feeling of anticipation at that second, really crossing fingers I'd caught a moment as balanced as I hoped.

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12:36 PM, May 4th

...I think this happened while kneeling on some hidden stairs along the side of a classroom, waiting for conference attendees to arrive?

That sounds right. And I kinda like it.

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9:31 PM, April 17th

End of a long day. Shooting an awards dinner of some kind.

Back to the car, everyone's long gone. Silent campus. Eerily peaceful.

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8:55 PM, August 16th

20+ frames iterating on the concept, and the best was an accidental moment pulling the camera down. 

Gotta let the shot be what it wants to be.

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1:11 PM, April 11th

Seen while having lunch mid-shoot outside in a weird, disused staff area of a UNC library.

Some hidden areas inside were clearly untouched since the '80s. It was delightful.

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7:26 PM, August 16th

As it says, good • day.

Still far too many life priorities to juggle, and ADHD+depression never makes it easy... but damn it, I miss photography for its own sake. Not just for work.

Got some real fun stuff exporting for y'all.

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4:06 PM, November 4th

When a shoot gives you the chance to check out some weird abandon spaces, you never pass on that chance.

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3:01 PM, July 22nd

I love the strange, inverted challenge of drone shoots. 

Normally where you can be is so limited, but you need to make the most of it... and suddenly with a drone you can be anywhere, at any height, at any time, and now have to find the exact optimum angles.

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10:17 AM, June 17th

...wait, we have a house? When did I get old?

Mortgages and responsibilities and installing stuff is weird, sure... but Salvatore the Cat can now up his lying-in-sunbeams/watching bunnies out the window game, so it’s more than worth it.

Post-quarantine work has been getting crazy again, and life is busy, but I can’t wait to get out and start shooting for myself again.

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4:49 PM, February 5th 

Here – let’s call the bird a metaphorical representation of frustration when tumblr reblogs a humor blog post onto the art blog for no reason.