Appropriately, it's Sunday and the first day of my first blog. This blog will have an theme of photography and stories, interspersed with insights into my experiences.

About my photography

Before I began using a digital camera, most of my photography was done with medium format cameras. Using those cameras often involved some careful planning. Since I began using a digital camera, I have abandoned using film cameras altogether. The digital camera has freed me up considerably, which I enjoy immensly, although my results are very different now. I don’t spend a lot of time planning or staging a photograph. The things, people or situations I find compelling to photograph are nearly always unexpected and spontaneous. They are a sudden record of my search for elegance, symmetry, humor, and irony, in my surroundings and life. I record these findings whenever I can. Of course, much of what I discover never finds its way into my camera. Moments pass with astonishing speed. I am fortunate to catch some at 1/500^th or 1/1500^th of a second. At a result, many of the images I take are not successful. I often fail to capture the poignancy or essence that I saw at the moment of snapping the shutter. Yet, on occasion, a poorly framed or over-exposed image still conveys what I wanted to capture. Sometimes, a blurred image captures completely and exactly what I felt and saw.

John