What's the Purpose of This Blog?

I can’t pin down exactly one thing that made me decide to start this site. It’s certainly not the first time I took a photo or built a personal site. It’s more like a collection of realizations that have come together over the last few months like a recurring voice telling me “you should try this.”

The first realization was when I was moving my photo catalog from an old PC to a new one we had built last year. As I was copying over the hundreds of thousands of images, I realized that there were so many images that only I had seen. Some were polished, a bunch were just raw and unedited. I have a few airshows that I never even culled through to find the keepers.

There are very few things that free my mind more than photography. I love figuring out how certain techniques work. I am motivated by continually working on how to improve. I love finding new subjects to photograph and the challenge in nature to find the perfect shot. I certainly have many other hobbies and things I love doing, but photography has always been the one that I circle back to time and time again. To me, there are few other things better than this:

Having been around cameras and technology for the better part of three decades, I have learned a few lessons along the way that I want to share in the hope that it can positively impact others. Sharing art, sharing experiences, sharing things I’ve learned the hard way in the hopes that it can help others avoid some of the pitfalls I’ve encountered along the way.

This blog is really about creating the space to share. I am intrigued with the work of Vivian Maier. She was a reclusive nanny and secret artist who quietly took over 150,000 breathtaking photographs of everyday life in Chicago and New York and left most of it in a storage locker. There is no doubt that part of this intrigue is the unusual discovery of her work, but it makes me wonder if she had shared her work, how it would have changed her life and those around her?

This space is not meant to be a pursuit for perfection. Much like Vivian Maier’s work, it is meant to be honestly human and purposefully imperfect. A walk through life as engineer, photographer, dad, husband and keen admirer of creation.

So, let’s see what happens.