About My Photography

My interest in photography actually got it’s start with Half-Nekkid Thursday, which Veronica and I started doing in the summer of 2008, using a crummy old Canon point-and-shoot. That Christmas Veronica and I upgraded a little bit to a Kodak, but still a point-and-shoot. I enjoyed the creative challenge of HNT (still do, actually) and started taking more and more photographs. As the year went on I became more and more dissatisfied with the quality of photographs that the camera was capable of. In June of that year Veronica and I met Emmy and Garbonzo when they came to visit us while we were in Seattle for a conference I was attending. Emmy brought along her Nikon D80 (I think that’s what it was, she’s since upgraded) and my lust for digital SLR was born. That fall another blogger friend came to visit us in Boston and brought along her Canon, I forget the model. We spent a day wandering around the city and she let me play with her camera a lot. Now I REALLY wanted a DSLR of my own!

Christmas 2009 saw another new camera, this time that DSLR I wanted, a Nikon D90. On January 1, 2010 I started my Project365 with this post. The goal of the Project365 is to take and share at least 1 picture a day for 365 consecutive days, with the goal of improving ones technical and artistic skills. I enjoyed it so much and got so much out of it (and didn’t miss a day either, yay me!) that I decided to keep going into 2011.

Here is the gear I use for my photography, the D90 with the 18-105 mm kit lens that it came with, the 35 mm f/1.8 lens that I bought last May, the 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens that Veronica got me for my birthday recently, and my tripods and remote shutter release. I edit and organize my photographs using Adobe Lightroom 3.0 on a Macbook Pro.