This year, 2022, I have been actively questioning how I might bring about the life I want: spending my time creatively, writing, photographing, printing. By establishing this website, I believe I have made an enormous step.
I have, in a far corner of my house, a darkroom I have been building for nearly four years. I have the cameras I desire. I budget for materials, for film, paper, chemicals.
In the kitchen, I keep my writing desk, my inkjet printer, my film scanner, all squeezed between binders full of negatives.
On my bookshelf are stacked books I purchased this year: the Aperture volume of essays from the Minor White years, a hardcover of Octave of Prayer, all of which I am reading concurrently.
I work, more of less, as an independent contractor. I write as a content marketer, but also as a freelance journalist and a travel writer. I carry my cameras wherever I go.
And lately, I have been traveling eastward into the Appalachian Mountains to photograph. I have slept in a number of cabins—on Pine Mountain, above Cumberland Falls, and in the Big South Fork. I have sought to find a place for myself in these regions so that I might come to understand them.
The products of my travels—I might even say the totems—will be kept here on this webpage. I invite you to look over my work. I have made prints available for sale, all of which I make myself, by hand. I post links to my published articles where possible.
I hope you will join me as I write the story of my life.