About

     I was never a really good artist.  I knew what I wanted something to look like, but never had the mental fortitude to relay my visions on paper so to speak.  Through the advancements in technology, art now takes even more form.  Photography is simply playing with light. No matter how much you try to justify the workings of the internal circuitry, every setting on a camera revolves around the modification of how the light is recorded.  It seems like such a simple concept, yet one that neither I nor anyone else will ever fully master it seems.  Suffice to say I do have fun trying to figure it out.

     I started photography back in 2001 by taking simple landscape photos in hopes that they would turn out great without any computer processing.  It seems the faster technology grows, also does the need for lies.  In the digital world, we have replaced truth by the universal terms of  "Photoshopping".  In order to compete in the eDarwinist world of digital photography, one must almost always drag their raw captures through a factory of filters, clone stamps, and other masking tools.

     Truth, however, can be expressed in ways that conventional photography does not and cannot warrant.  Computerized tricks and modifications reveal canvases of surreal worlds and ideas once thought as impossible. While I have not yet even scratched the surface of this digital marvel, I am closer becoming acquainted with the standardizations of Photoshop and utilities like it to brush my photos with subtle effects that emphasize my original concepts. 

     Psychologists would tell you about the impurities and almost unnoticeable modifications to art that, with the additions or subtractions of, can convert an image from just another self portrait to a bold statement of sentimental expression.  Musicians, writers, photographers, and many other expression orientated artists can reveal truth where it can sometimes lack by simply adjusting a frequency, word, or color hue by an almost insignificant value.

     Is this new digital way of life something to be desired or looked down upon?  Who is to decide truth?  Is the rhetorical and above all else banal nature of the question just enough to declare it not worthy of a binary answer?  I personally feel that truth comes from the reaction that someone hearing, reading, or viewing the art feels from the impact that the piece can deliver. 

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     To give you a little information about this site, it has been operational since January of 2005 and has been down for a total of 3 days since.  I use my own equipment and networks to host this and my other sites.  If the site loads slowly for you, I apologize in advance and reason it to being  something wrong with my service provider.  With the price of self-hosting ($0), I really can't complain.