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About Me
Photography The
art of photography has been a long time interest for me. It started off
as walking around with my old Olympus 35mm film camera, taking pictures
of different things here and there. I never really put too much
enthusiasm
into any of it since I really knew
nothing
about what I was doing. As the years progressed I would look at many
pictures
in magazines or on the internet and just be floored by what I was
seeing.
Like many other things, I thought to myself "now how in the world did
they
do that?" This thinking broke open a brand new book for me. When I get
interested
in something that I really want to do, I tend to spend countless hours
researching
different sources to find my answers. Also, like many other things, the
information I was gathering created a chain effect. Once I learned how
to
do one thing, I was eager for the next, and so on and so forth. To this
day I am still doing this. I am someone who is never happy with his
work
and am always looking for minor flaws and ways to change things for
improvement.
Once I think that I have finally captured something that would make one
drop their jaw, I do more research to find how other people
have
photographed something relative to my subject and I'm back to the
drawing
board.
So why do I love photography so much? It freezes time. It captures moments that only occur once in a lifetime. It lets me capture the world around me. My real interest is NOT to create "fine art" prints or anything worth getting published per se, but more to freeze the feeling of the things I see and the atmosphere I experience. It is also very relaxing for me. After a stressful week at the workplace or a longing for something "different", I can always pick up my gear and set off for whatever comes my way. I am actually becoming quite the pessimist, but whenever I head out with my equipment all the negative thoughts and feelings seem to disappear. Has anything ever happened to you that you can think back on and wish you had some pictures? Me too. I still miss the majority of opportunities that happen today. When I'm old and can't get around anymore, it'll be nice to open a book and see everything I have witnessed and have been a part of throughout my entire life. Equipment Chase Vehicles  This is my buddy Joel's 2005 Pontiac GTO. It saw its first chase on Fathers Day, 2009. |
