"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." - Albert Einstein
Hi! I am a self taught amateur photographer from Albany, NY. I do mostly portrait and travel photography, although my passion is in fine art, and I make an effort to stay well rounded. There is no distinction for me between personal and professional work, because it's all personal to me, and I am happy to share it with others.
Taking pictures has been an on-and-off casual hobby for me since I was fourteen. I had an old 1980s hand-me-down Minolta with a single 24mm lens with a very loose focus ring. I didn’t understand optics or even basic photography concepts back then, and there were no instructional Youtube videos or anyone experienced enough to teach me the basics. I learned through reading books, my own experimentation, and wasting many many rolls of 35mm film. My goal at the time was to document and capture the most important moments in my life so that I would always remember myself as I had been; few things in life are as painful as forgetting oneself and casually moving on as the past and everything that is important in the past fades away like ripples in a pond.
Ninety-nine percent of my shots were crap, but once in a while, I’d get a photograph that I liked so much it made all that wasted film worth it. I still look at those pictures today.
For the past five years, I have been devoting great time, money, and effort into my work, since I had finally gained the resources to take photography seriously. Whereas I used to think of photography as a way to document my life, I now see it as also a means of expression, communication, and self-examination: an artform. Now, my gear is much better, I no longer have to waste rolls and rolls of 35mm film, I’ve become knowledgeable and skillful, and I have a lot more time and money to invest in my work, but my approach to photography is the same as it was when I was a teenager. I’m still looking for those magical shots that will make all this time and effort worth it.
It's been twenty years since I've taken a picture with that old Minolta, and now that I am shooting a forty-two megapixel A7RMk3 that can spit out ten 7952 x 5304 frames a second with a wide assortment of G-master lenses as well as powerful post processing software, I am so proud to say that only ninety-eight percent of my shots are crap.
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