***I'm making my photos available for download now. If you'd like to use anything, ask and I'll probably say yes. If you just take them and I find out, you're finished.***

My mother had a Canon AE-1 but it was stolen. It would've been mine, but then I would've been a walking cliché.

First camera that was truly mine was a Canon EOS Rebel 2000. What a workhorse it was. This was around 1999. I shot a lot. Most of it was crap.

I shot thousands of frames of Kodak E100 for a project in 8th grade with a Nikon N80 and 2 low-end zoom lenses. No 2.8 glass here. This was 2001. Most of it was still crap, but there were some of which I'm still very proud. The slides were shown once to small audience (of about 400 people) and really never seen again. They are in boxes and they will be scanned... someday.

I have my grandfather's Mamiya RZ. I took a dark room class and experimented with it. It's rather heavy and thus inconvenient. The pictures are great, though.

One day around 2003 I abandoned film. I still have a few undeveloped rolls. I got a Nikon D100 and then a Nikon D2H which continues to be my workhorse. I shot two major projects, a 10-month long school project and a season embedded with a high school soccer team. I used 2 lenses: the gorgeous Nikon 70-200 2.8 AF-S VR and classic Nikon 17-35 2.8 (I now use the future classic 17-55mm 2.8).

For a few years, I rarely touched the Nikons while I was using a Canon PowerShot SD300 (which I still use). It's a camera for dummies, but it's amazing what can be created with it - provided you have the fundamental skills. Plus it fits in my pocket, which meant I carried it and used it more.

As of 2009, I'm venturing back into film with a Lomo Horizon Perfekt. We'll see how that goes.

I'm slightly ashamed that most of my pictures on here were taken with the dummy Canon and my iPhone. This will change.

Someday, when I have a spare $10k lying around, I will get that elusive Leica M8 rangefinder.

I do not own Photoshop or any editing software beyond what is available in iPhoto. For the rare major edit, I use free browser-based editors. I'm also generally averse to using any artificial lighting. I'm a purist snob like that.

Most of my pictures are still crap, but I do get a few gems once in a while.