Photography

Retro Computing

Fall 2024

I found this limited edition 1986 Apple IIGS down in a dumpster destined for destruction, so jumping into the bin and tossing it into the truck home felt like the right thing to do. One PSU replacement and some secondhand OS floppies later, and I have a dedicated DOS machine. One day I hope to use this to experiment with COBOL.

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Hut in Green

Fall 2024

A stick hut held firm in a forest alcove atop a hill in Ledges park. The hut inviting the traveler into its pleasant embrace, cradled beneath the vibrant greenery in some biotic matryoshka.

The traveler yearns to take shelter in the Earth, bathe in its green, and drink from the sky.

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Feelings

Spring 2024

Black and white film. Self developed.

I hope that she can feel my warm spark tapping from the other side of this vanta glass. Humming and thrumming to some strange tune singing to me that she's the last key to my humanity. By all speculations unseen or expected, here and now, my touch is certain. But if I've no hands to pinch or heart to kiss, then what is this?

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Philistine

Spring 2024

Black and white film. Self developed.

Philistine: an individual that holds no value to culture or shared ideas. A complete materialist. Appraising greed before humanity and capital gain before education. Manufactured all the same under the press of tuition; the cost of learning too high to justify nill economic incentive. Yet through this superficial fiat distinction of intellectual superiority, profit can be just within reach. We can trade ourselves for success. We can save the family for a dollar.

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Lost in Ontario

Summer 2023

My first time in Canada my friend Luke and I went on a hike by the Niagara escarpment. The bold rocky faces were beautiful and of the photos I shot I loved the running water, vibrant greenery, and the glistening rainbow I was able to capture here.

We fell off the trail and got lost on the hike home, but for views like this I look forward to getting lost again.

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Calebs Not Here

Spring 2022

Bourbon Street has a habit of bringing out the craziest parts of us. I have no idea where I took this photo after the 100 proof from several hours prior, but I remember my friend looking damn good in this lighting and in an almost instinctive way I captured someone who simply was not him. Someone who emerged from their conscience unshackled from credo and simply alive in this moment. Someone who is either entirely transformed, or has finally allowed themselves to live as they are.

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River Perspective

Fall 2024

I want to experiment more with the sortave first person perspective I utilize here. I feel that it allows the viewer to not see a person in a moment, but see themselves in that moment. Your boots, your jeans, your legs hanging in the cliffside air. Once immersed it's easier to flow into and take in the beauty and detail of the environment presented.

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Edison Bulb in a Coffee Shop

Fall 2024

The burnished copper cap and radiant hot wires for this retro Edison style bulb complement the warm hues of this rather hipster coffee shop in college town Ames.

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Listening?

Spring 2024

Black and white film. Self developed.

I was inspired by a shot from Ingmar Bergman's Persona to create a piece on AI using a mannequin to represent this artificial figure. The individual speaking to someone who is not really there. The lighting and texture around the molded ring is the byproduct of a happy accident as the film was overexposed and the only way to correct it was to bring out these super dark shades.

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Nashville Lights

Spring 2024

My crew gathered on a Nashville rooftop while on a night crawl, peering over we could feel the music resonate with the streets. Whiskey and beer playing with the eyes, ears, and mind till the energy and vibrance dances along the street with beaming lights that taste of candy.

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401k and a House

Fall 2023

Avaricious footsteps carry echoes in the concrete domain complemented with buzzing fluorescent lights. I must look for the exit door somewhere in these cold coarse halls. Salvation is in the structure. There are gaps in the boundaries where the light bleeds in, do not take notice. There is an assurance that my future is within these walls, that if I follow its rules I will find the exit door. Do not go into the light. Trust the structure.

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Lincoln Street

Spring 2023

The crew and I drove across the US from SC to IA over a week and in our last hurrah I decided we could party in Chicago on St. Paddy's Friday. It'd be a crazy spot to end the trip and a cheap flight back home for the two. None of us had ever been to this city.

After a long and rowdy night we found ourselves on a rooftop bar on Lincoln Street. The vibes were right, the view was beautiful, and the people were great to talk to. I felt the energy and happiness in this photo greatly captured our friendship.

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Whiskey and Masala

Winter 2024

I love bringing people together for a good laugh. To talk the talk, discuss shop, or reflect. Food has this inviting magical ability to bring out the most compassionate parts of us. Seeing the weights lifted from those I love around me is an inspiration to do more for my community. In the presence of food I can see my friends and family be more of themselves, and I can feel myself be a better friend, a better brother, and a better man.

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Ledges

Summer 2024

I had no idea that this beautiful state park was just down the road from my university until my last year there. I spent an entire day hiking along the rocks and streams and found this gorgeous view on the side of the road trekking back to my car. I love the vibrant green, mystic blue skies, and solar rays peaking through the tree tops.

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Bliss

Spring 2024

Black and white film. Self developed.

A man donates change to the hapless before a power plant; its pollution drives the climate in a direction that will command him to the same fate. The viewer's perspective solely on the change in frame, its temporary benefaction rendered still, with the plant out of focus.

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Asphalt Rain

Fall 2023

I love the high contrast between lights and the night, its tones almost amplified following a light rain where I can pick up these colors in the moisture and puddles. The asphalt adds a second dark vector to compliment the sky.

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Hotel New Orleans

Spring 2022

The dulcet streets carried music and soul in its sweet boozy air. Neon lights flirted with our eyes dividing us amongst the ethereal hivemind of harmonious folk.

Like falling to a siren I was lost in its light. No longer there with my clique but rather one amongst a rabble of like minded travelers.

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