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 Photo-a-Day in 2011, 2014, and 2017. But it wasn't until Steven Bollman suggested I check out the Fujifilm system, and I started hiking with (and enjoying the photography of) naturalist Ward Ruth that I got passionate about it. When the pandemic hit, I finally(!) learned manual exposure and started carrying cameras everywhere.
I love to hike, love to travel, and I love cycling. And I'm fortunate to live in the SF Bay Area, which is so rich with both natural beauty and the leftovers of the Built World -- shipyards, old buildings, fascinating people. The cameras became an essential ingredient, and I mostly stopped shooting iPhone. I get out lots, and document my experiences, that's all.
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:
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: I can print any of my images to 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.