I am pictured above on the morning of my departure from the United States, on January 4th, 2010. My mother took this photograph in our house in Hamilton, Massachusetts. I appear to have many possessions with me—two bags-full, in fact—and such is true. I had to choose those items such as socks, shirts, books, electronics, [...]
I tend to anthropomorphize those objects of particular joy to me. Some of them receive names; my 2006 Honda Civic goes by SparkleMotion and my new laptop is NightMoose. And, so, I am happy to announce a new addition to my material family and a very welcome traveling companion (though one that will remain unnamed): [...]
Camera Obscura – Razzle Dazzle Rose This story is impossible to write perfectly. This story is a smell and a feeling and a smile and three years and a half years of big life changes and rain. Seattle has treated me well and for that I am thankful. I have experienced such fantastic joy and [...]
Of late, I have been busy and exhausted and oscillating between joyous motivation and annoyed malaise. Also, I cut my hair.
I was reading up on the Nikon D90, drinking ginger tea and lusting for this hot new piece, when I found a beautiful little note pages down in Ken Rockwell's D90 review: Marketing: 16 page brochure. The photo examples suggest that buying a D90 will earn you a lot of young, colorful, outgoing and active [...]
Listen to "With Arms Outstretched" by Rilo Kiley I spent the final week of August with my family—my parents Melanie and Federico and my sister Nicole and her fiancé Mark—at a small cabin on a lake in New Hampshire. As we do every year, we swam and read and cooked and ate and talked and [...]
I actually took my camera out of its case on Sunday at Kleinman—not to take photographs of Ultimate, mind you, but rather to snap a bunch of portraits of our squad that weekend. I think I'll be sticking to such shots for as long as I'm only packing my 50mm 1.8 portrait lens. In truth, [...]
