About my photography
I've been a casual photographer most of my life, but started to get more interested while working as a web developer at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in the 2000s, sharing an office with photojournalist Ken Light and sitting in on sessions with photojournalism professor Richard Koci-Hernandez, who suggested shooting an image every day. I got hooked, and did Photo365 projects in 2011, 2014, and 2017. When the pandemic hit, I finally(!) learned manual exposure and started carrying my cameras everywhere.
I love hiking, kayaking, and cycling (on the Central Coast and in the Bay Area especially) and have found ways to integrate photography into all of my hobbies. I consider myself blessed to have grown up surfing and adventuraing in Morro Bay and am now fortunate to live in the SF Bay Area, which is rich with natural beauty and the leftovers of the built world -- shipyards, old buildings, and fascinating people. The cameras became an essential ingredient, and I mostly stopped shooting iPhone.
FAQs
Q: Where do you post?
A: My main jam is Glass.photo, where I post a couple of images daily. I usually copy the same post to some combination of:
I also publish a series of photography-related articles at my Substack publication, Framespotting
Q: I heard that Flickr was a ghost town.
A: Not for me. Me and millions of others are having a great time sharing there, and the image quality and feature-set is way beyond what you get with Instagram. You might want to read my Medium piece Flickr Is No Ghost Town
Q: Can I order prints?
A: Everything you see here is available in any medium you'd like - paper, glass, aluminum, wood, or canvas. Pretty much any size. Copy the URL of an image you'd like printed and use the Contact Form on this site to let me know. I'll get back to you with pricing.
About this site
No images have been uploaded to this site!
As a photography portfolio site, this one is a bit unique. Yes, I wanted a place apart from social media to display my favorite work. But I already put a lot of time into uploading, titling, describing and tagging my images on Flickr. I wanted a way to leverage that work into a customized portfolio site, without re-uploading. Flickr provides a well-documented API, and I wondered whether I could build a gallery that pulled images in directly without hosting them itself. Of course I had to build it in Django, because that's what I do.
If you're curious, I've made a short video explaining the architecture of this site:
The project is open source. If you speak Python/Django and use Flickr, you're free to use/customize (or contribute code!). Otherwise, it's probably not suited for most photographers.