I've had a serious interest in photography ever since I was in junior high school, when I had such a good time in the 8th grade photography class that the next year I actually signed up to be a teacher's aide for the class so that I could get ongoing access to the darkroom (one major difference between now and then is that I find the idea of supervising a bunch of 8th graders in a darkroom much scarier now).
I've long harbored a fantasy of being able to afford a house with space for a darkroom. Though the bursting of the dotcom bubble has put that fantasy on hold for a while, it has yielded some positive dividends, including not only smaller traffic jams and reduced competition for parking in downtown Palo Alto, but also a surfeit of cheap, surplus computer equipment, much of it new or nearly so. Consequently, I've now accumulated most of the components of a pretty good "digital darkroom". This doesn't include a digital camera, none of which so far meet my standards at a price competitive with, say, a new luxury car (though I expect the relentless march of Moore's Law to correct this fairly soon, we're not there yet). But I have acquired a Polaroid film scanner and so, over the past few months, I've managed to digitize, catalog and organize my existing portfolio.
This page leads to my online gallery, where I've put on display some of the pictures I've shot over the past 20 or so years. Personal web pages may be the ultimate form of vanity (especially ones with pictures!), but I'm actually quite proud of some of these pictures and so enjoy sharing them. (I also have what is probably the world's largest collection of photographs that are overexposed even though they were taken in the middle of the night, but I'll keep those to myself. And at least I'm not posting snapshots from the family reunion or pictures of my cats.) There are two ways in, depending on your bandwidth and appetite for adventure:
While I'm not a professional photographer, these pictures do represent my serious creative effort. They are owned and copyrighted by me. These images are for your personal use. You can link to them or add them to your screen saver or print them out to hang over your desk, etc., but you cannot redistribute or republish them in any form. You cannot give nor sell them to other people. If you want to redistribute this work for some reason, contact me and we'll talk; I'm pretty reasonable.
This is probably also an appropriate place to insert a link to Ctein, a remarkable photographer
whose own website helped inspire me to put this gallery together. Ctein is a
true artist (that is to say, the real deal, in contrast to a punter like me)
whose photographic work I admire utterly. He has also been a good friend whose
generous and patient advice has made my art rather better than it would
otherwise be. Go buy some of his pictures.