For 22 years, I've been shooting with my Leica M4-P, a model old enough that it was built before internal light meters on Leicas. In college, I loved to make 11x14 color prints in the photography department lab. I would spend all night printing when I could. For a web design class, I put together a quick website that I didn't touch for 14 years. When that access went away, I compiled mountains of little prints, which I would shuffle in and out of piles to show people.

I had a few scanned and submitted for publication, but for the most part, the negatives remained in books and the prints in these packages and boxes. This is until about four years ago, just before the pandemic. I was working in live theatre, and as a job requirement, I had to own a laptop. I barely used it for sound purposes, but after a while I met a touring audio engineer who convinced me to buy a scanner of my own and finally attempt to get my work out of the boxes and into the world.

I am two years into this process. I'm still scanning. I really gave myself a crash course in Silverfast SE Plus, both Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, and now Wix. People have told me that I am quite opinionated. So why not share my influences, process, and general thoughts on photography, life, and mental health? Being bipolar makes the emotional toll of taking on 20 years of photography a bit extreme. So that is what this blog is about... next time, maybe some mental health, or maybe some influences. Not sure yet.