Road to Wingo /
STILL WATER /
44 /
Reflecting on my 44th Birthday.
In my early 20's I thought I was a poet. My sentences incomplete. Their cadence imperceptible. Paragraphs of run on, word after word after word. I had the heartbreak worthy of a poet by the hands of a trickster, a sad goddess who begrudgingly opened my eyes. I wanted to quit school to become an EMT. I wanted to be a hero. I imagined myself saving lives with a combination of fast driving and martial arts. At the time my father simply said "No." I remember feeling appalled. I was a 24 year old "Grown Ass Man", still taking orders from my dad. At my core, I knew he was wise and in the end we negotiated like men. Over the next 20 years I would become the following: jobless, hungry, supply clerk, graduate, New Yorker, importer, designer, photographer, engineer, yogi, teacher, Californian. My biggest lesson in life is that there is no such thing as a "Late Bloomer" but rather a ceaselessly cyclical life of blooming. I know this to be true because even in our saddest moments and our grandest failures, as the universe is constantly expanding we are still being propelled forward.
Alamere Falls /
China camp /
SF MOMA /
Misión San Francisco de Asís /
Photos taken and edited on an iPhone 6S plus.
A Love Note /
Shot this wedding for my friends Ben and Charity. Shot with one camera, hand held, with minimal lighting.
The Falls /
A couple of snaps from a Pentax K1000 /
Cleveland Skyline /
From the rooftop at the Cleveland Clinic.
Skyway - Cleveland Clinic /
From my porch /
I recently made a switch from shooting on Canon to shooting on a Fuji X Pro 1. The Fuji is a completely different beast than the 5Dmk2, but the colors and image quality have been impressive. These images were taken on the X Pro 1 with a Canon FD 135mm and Fotasy adapter.
Mission /
Haight Street /
Taken from a moving car with a manual focus lens while driving.
