About

I've been shooting film seriously for ten years. Before that I was casual, pointing a camera at what caught my eye but not really thinking about it. The Contax changed that.

I studied photography formally at university but learned the most by just shooting—by printing, by seeing what works and what doesn't, by studying photographers I admired, by making mistakes and fixing them.

The work here is documentary in instinct but editorial in thinking. I'm interested in light, in scale, in the moment just before or just after the obvious one. Landscape and long exposure are the obsession. Street and portraiture are the other two legs of the tripod.

I shoot mostly film. When I shoot digital it's a Nikon D800E, and when I shoot film it's either a Nikon F100 or a Contax 137MA with a Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7. The choice between them is usually about the light and about whether I want to think about composition before I shoot or after.

Gear

Nikon F100	The film workhorse. Reliable, fast shutter, great metering.
Contax 137 MA + Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7	The one that made me obsessive. Still the best rangefinder I've owned.
Nikon D800E	Workhorse digital. 36MP full-frame. Still competitive in 2026.
Nikon D700	Legacy body. Kept for sentimental reasons and occasional travel backup.
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8	The main lens. Constant aperture, weather-sealed, lived through everything.
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR	Telephoto for compression and isolation. VR is essential for long exposures.