Hi, thanks for taking a moment to check out my little corner of the internet.
I’ve had a diverse professional background, from high-tech jobs in IT and specialty retail to more outdoorsy work, from state parks to planting trees for non-profits.
I’ve also been taking pictures for a long time. My dad is an avid astrophotographer and birdwatcher, so I grew up learning and practicing with his gear on hikes together.
Dad, until recently, also had a pilot’s license. Several of my other family members have been veteran pilots and aviation enthusiasts, and I’ve been flying model aircraft and rockets since childhood. Some I even tried attaching cameras to, with mixed results.
In the early 2010s it was a thrill to be able to combine these passions for photography and aviation with the advent of affordable consumer drones. Being able to frame things literally however I wanted reignited my interest in landscape photography.
And of course, there are plenty of people willing to take beautiful drone pictures just for fun. I’m still often one of them, even if I’m trying to also get paid for it most of the time.
Why photography? To me, it’s one of the last ways to tell a true story. The modern world is so full of falsehood, from deceptive editing to outright AI fabrication, and I think right now we crave authenticity. Even though I initially built this website using AI to write blog articles, I noticed pretty quickly that these tools all sound the same. The perfectly bullet-pointed, disembodied, mile-wide-puddle-deep perspective they offer is so easy to recognize now, and it isn’t really how anybody speaks.
AI can be very useful, to be sure. With text as well as imagery, I think it’s even useful for teaching people the difference between real moments and true communication versus approved regurgitation of indexed sources. But we’re in a moment now where we can still generally tell the difference; it won’t be long before perhaps we can’t.
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