Musings, both intellectual and visual.
Spot removal. Frequency separation. Gaussian blur. So many tools, so many imperfections to remove. Transforming slightly or substantially the person’s face at the photographer’s discretion, yielding a person both like and unlike the one photographed. This, the photograph tells us implicitly, is the person. This is what they look like—or rather how we would prefer … Read more In Ideal Beauty
You never know when something is going to catch your eye––at least I never do. A simple walk from work to my car turned into a photo opportunity. Surely, some people wondered what could that person be taking pictures of. I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity as I took the last pictures on my … Read more Wet Asphalt
I wonder if something befell us and we ceased as a species, what would the archaeologists who might find our planet be able to understand about what we were like. If many of the artifacts of our existence were still present, would they know that we mostly wrote with our right hands, that we shopped … Read more Artifacts of Our Existence
There is no best camera brand or camera model, and there is no best camera technology. The best camera is not the one that has the most impressive specifications or the one that costs the most or even is the most desired by your friends or the public. It isn’t even the one you happen … Read more Thoughts on the Best Camera
As one day follows another and enters the stream of indivisible past, I find myself pondering more the nature of dreams and of reality. This musing has been influenced particularly by the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as prior work in my classes on composite imagery and a growing interest in ontology, the study of … Read more The Company of Dreams