So a bit late to the party...

do or die time. I guess baby steps are better than nothing, right?

Hi there...

Welcome. This will be a photo blog. I'll be posting my photography here as well as trying out the blog thing as well. Never really got into it before. The page may be blank for a week or two (..or three) while i figure out how to make it look clean and find out how the ef i can make this work for me; financially speaking. As if you couldn't tell by my handle, i have little to no moneys. Eventually i'll see if i can link my dusty old paypal account to here so payments can be made for full res versions of my work. If you want them that is. If not, feel free to save low-res files because everyone LOVES those. /sarcasm.

But no, really go ahead and save them, spread them around, etc etc. I guess one of those cheesy lines i'm supposed to say as an "Artist" is that if my work makes you happy, then enjoy it*.

*while i suffer forever alone and poor

About me:


At the time of this posting, I am a 23 year old college freshman. (late start to college, looks like i should just be starting high school, i might tell you a tale of this in a future blog post) Currently attending a (very expensive) university in the San Francisco  Bay Area. Nowhere near graduation, in all honesty probably never will. I hope i'll be able to pay off even a quarter of the financial aid the feds expect me to pay back before i hit retirement age...But even that's questionable.


Still live with the parents. No big surprise for a gen-Y second child born to middle-class income parents in today's economy.  Sadly, there's a lot of people like "me" out there. Wouldn't be at all surprised if you're one of them; browsing the interwebs looking for something to pass the time. So if you are, believe me we both know that feel. If you aren't, then alt f4 right now because your boss is probably peeking in over your shoulder wondering Y U NO WORK.

Then come back when he's gone. He's gone? Good, keep on truckin'.

Started taking pictures about 2 years ago after i lost my (first and so far only) job. Bought a DSLR, only used auto, didn't even have Ps or Lr, had no idea what manual focus was.

Oh the camera is a Nikon D60 by the way. inb4 Nikon vs Canon wars.

After job loss, started going to a local community college, majored in psychology for three semesters and minored in photography in two. Yeah, a weird mix, I know. Psychology kind of took a back seat in my mind when my interest in photography outgrew my interest in learning about how a bunch of old guys taught us how to interpret out thoughts.

in regards to photography education; i found out that community college-level photo education teaches you that dark-room photography is STILL relevant and IS NOT dying, digital images don't have that "human soul" feel to them, while super expensive university photo education teaches you that digital is the new, cheaper future; dark-room photography is a costly, dying fad, only meaningful as a nostalgic skill, and that a digital image can have as much if not more "soul" than a darkroom print.

If anything, i learned that one side of each respective institution teaching ways is a stubborn old fool that refuses to get with the times, and the other is an arrogant sociopath that cant appreciate the ways of old because they are too busy being enamored with their hipster ways. And we pay them for this.

Yes, by the way, I said hipster. Probably only ever to be uttered in text form by me, in fact i don't think I've ever even spoken the word before.

Does that make me a hipster?

Anyway, this has probably been a long read for you. I don't know if i'll be able to keep it entertaining enough to warrant you wanting to read for more, or if you are only interested in the pretty pictures between the words. Seeing as how there are no photos to entertain those of you who stick around for the latter as of the typing of this post, i hope i didn't make it too boring.

I'll try to make a blog post (with a picture...hopefully) every day, but if time doesn't allow i'll be sure to do it once a week.

Seeing as how NOBODY will read this for at least a week, i think i might be able to let myself go this time.

Later.