06/52

for most of my life, i have enjoyed photographing my surroundings, urban streetscapes and otherwise spaces often overlooked. there's an amazing beauty to the raw elements around us that i find so intriguing. but, for the past five-and-a-half years, my photography has been centered on portraiture and story telling.

and now i find myself at this crossroads, where i crave the freedom on shooting unexplored and unexpected spaces, but it feeling flat because that human depth is missing.

so i'm starting a retrospective travelogue of my travels in europe from summers of 2006 and 2007. i'm adding stories via ten-year-old memories and old journals to these otherwise silent images. here's to hoping it crosses the line from past trips to future travelogues. 

03/52

every year at this time, the sun hits the windows of my office building, and refracts light onto the warehouse across the alley, with big, shiny, golden X's that slowly track the sun's movement over the course of the day. i'd like to think that in noticing and participating in this phenomena, that i'm mapping space and time...

but if you think about it, that's exactly what photographs and photographers do.  we are hoping to control the unattainable by telling a story about here and now.

don't stop telling stories! even if it's by using shiny X's that would've otherwise been unnoticed... because those are the best stories to tell.