Photography has been my passion since a treasured trip to India in 2004. Started with a point and shoot and have now progressed to a digital SLR and Android phone. It's like therapy to me, taking pictures. I can't NOT take them.

Being a computer geek by profession, my career life is ruled by left-brain activities and thinking. Life had gotten a little lopsided for me until I traveled to India, where the colors and "other"-ness captivated my eye like nothing else had before. In the space of a year after that trip, I'd acquired an SLR camera, a few lenses, and unbridled enthusiasm for finding my own way to express the beauty I choose to see in the world, in all its forms.

In 2004 I also made into reality a second passion pursuit of mine - becoming a DJ to make mixes and play this gorgeous, somewhat-unknown music that I was coming across. Overall it's referred to as downtempo, but within that realm there is so much variation that it doesn't really do it justice. That side of my creative life took off and now has a life of its own. I own a record label, Over the Moon and produced several weekly shows on Twitch from 2020-2022.

One meaningful addition to my visual creative life is a form of digital art, where I use the images I've taken to create kaleidoscopic perspectives, often hand-painting further selections in the patterns to modify in yet other ways using textures and tonal shifts. The actual practice of creating these has become a solid outlet for me to tap into a creative zone, and it feels like meditation. As of 2023 I started exploring having merch printed with these digital art pieces, in the form of clothing, home goods, and tech accessories. My website is here.

Over the last few years I've learned in spades how essential it is to maintain balance - between left and right brain, between direct experience and introspection, between ardent work and meditative time. It's meant that life has slowed down for me a bit, but I'm not complaining. It affords me more of an opportunity to appreciate it all.

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