Sameness
Ask an AI for a story and you'll probably meet Elias the lighthouse keeper. Ask it for a photograph and you'll meet the average of every photograph. A test, and what it means.
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Blog
Exploring the art of analog photography—tips, stories, and inspiration for rediscovering the joy of film in a digital world.
Who Made This?
An essay on authorship in the age of the prompt — what analog photography, a monkey, and a 140-year-old Supreme Court case have to say about who really makes a picture.
The Art of Witnessing
A 1974 photograph of a Nazi-era memorial in Dorsten, Germany — shot on my father's Zeiss Ikon Ikonta — and the erasures that followed.
Berlin, 1974
A photograph from East Berlin, 1974 — the Berliner Dom, the Fernsehturm, a sixteen-year-old with his father's Zeiss Ikon, and why old photographs keep teaching us how to see.
Keywording Analog Film: Building a Metadata System That Actually Works
How I adapted a 1,786-keyword foundation list into a focused hierarchy for analog film photography — and why most of those keywords had to go. With a downloadable keyword cookbook and ready-to-import keyword file.
From Scan to Print: My Analog Film Workflow Cookbook
The complete workflow I use to process medium format film — from Epson V800 scanning through Negative Lab Pro, Lightroom Classic, and all the way to print. With a downloadable PDF cookbook.
The Doors of Perception — As It Is
The third and final volume of The Doors of Perception photographic essay series. Four movements, one argument: the world is already infinite — if you let it be.
Photographer's NAS Migration Guide: Windows to Mac with Synology
A complete storage architecture and migration plan for photographers moving from Windows to macOS with a Synology NAS. Includes a critical Lightroom Classic macOS bug workaround.
The Doors of Perception — What the Land Remembers
A photographic essay in four movements — Confinement, Character, Expansion, Seeing — shot on medium format black-and-white film across Zion, Sedona, and the Grand Canyon. Edition 2, 2026.