My photographs stand as a journal of my life, each one an entry capturing my feelings of that particular place or time.

This visual journal holds nearly nine years worth of entries. Youthful wandering has taken me through a variety of subject matter. In a few cases, I focused on a specific subject in greater detail, a kind of chapter is then created.

The glue that brings all the work together is the aesthetic aspects of the home made 7"x17" view camera and the hand coated platinum/palladium printing process. The unique optical traits of using such a large format allow me to isolate the subject yet still show the entire scene. The hand coated print has its own nostalgic qualities, with its warm color and brush marks like sloppy hand writing. Every part of the photograph- from the camera, the imagery, to the final print, work together to create a truely personal expression.

Writing in an actual journal would be so much easier...