Remaking Myself

For those that have been following me for sometime, you may have caught onto my pattern of remaking myself, my style… all the time.

I love to be challenged and I love to break new ground (for myself). This is the main reason my style changes so drastically every 12-18 months. If you dig in my Flickr stream, you can see the changes, year by year.

For a rundown on my styles of the past 5 years:

• 2008 – switched from SLR to DSLR with a Nikon D80.  Style was shooting mainly lake sunsets, my dog and randomness.
• 2009 – Got into the Cokin Filter system - applied it to seascapes / lakes for most of the year.  Blended in lots of HDR crap.
• 2010 – Upgrade to Nikon D700 / Zeiss system.  This was a year of playing with portraits and a good amount of macro / thin DOF work and lots of commercial work.
• 2011 – This was a year dedicated to portraits and models.  Learning the art of the human.  Also, got into medium format that year with the Rollei.
• 2012 – The year of the strobes.  Most of my work last year was dedicated to studio portraits. Ended up with 5 lights / umbrellas and stands.  That’s a lot.
• 2013 – The year of Leica.  We’ll see… street?!

So, as you can see, I change quite a bit, year by year.  I feel by changing what I do, year after year, I really grow in my art.  By challenging myself with new areas of photography, it’s always fresh, always new – and usually scary as hell.  I do this with the intention of being good at what I do – maybe not the best, but I want to have fun and share my journey’s with you all.

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