Before the advent of digital photography, I never considered myself a photographer. I don't like gadgets & I don't read instructions, so f-stops & aperture rings & darkroom chemicals were all huge turnoffs for me. But now, after about two decades of obsessively photographing pretty much everything with my various Canon point & shoot cameras, I am finally willing to entertain the idea of - well I can't really bring myself to say "I'm a photographer" - but I will admit that digital photography has become a serious & time consuming practice for me. We'll see where this goes from here.
2014
160 photos of East Bay storefronts were exhibited as a 21-minute looping storefront projection at Smokey's Tangle, Oakland CA, February 7-28, 2014
Large storefront windows are theaters of both intentional display and unintentional revelation. They give us glimpses of the building blocks of aspiration and of the detritus of failure. Taken as a group, these Oakland storefront windows reflect the community that surrounds them.
Most of these but not all were taken while driving at high speeds from Oakland to Benicia CA at early hours of the morning on the way to work.
As a museum fabricator and preparator, I use laser levels at work a lot, and I've always been delighted by the random effects they can produce. With the exception of the first photo, none of these photos are staged. They are all photos of laser level effects that happened during the course of my work at the Oakland Museum of CA.
Pretty much just what the album name says: just some fun with some sort of blue light source; I really don't remember what type of lights they were.
One day I had filled the tub for a bath and the light was just so lovely I had to take some photos.
I spend a lot of time roaming around the globe via Google Street View, posting what I think are interesting screen captures to Facebook. For this website, I sorted my best images into a couple different categories. This one is called "Architecture" but it might just as accurately be called "Signage."
I spend a lot of time roaming around the globe via Google Street View, posting what I think are interesting screen captures to Facebook. For this website, I sorted my best images into a couple different categories. This one is called "Solitary" and concerned itself with human bodies isolated in the man made environment.
I spend a lot of time roaming around the globe via Google Street View, posting what I think are interesting screen captures to Facebook. For this website, I sorted my best images into a couple different categories. This one is called "Dark Earth."
