Rock Harbor Sunset

This photo has, and always will be one of my favorite photos. I snapped this one while on vacation at Cape Cod in 2008. Although the original is a bit washed out, Gimp did an excellent job of bringing out the colors and texture of the water and sky. Although the photo is a bit grainy and too bright in certain areas, this photo inspired me to continue taking more pictures and aim for always doing better. Aside from the minor mistakes, the photo taught me about composition. Everything from the ripple in the center, to the lite from the sun that abruptly ends in the middle of the ripple taught me exactly what good composition of elements is in a photograph. This photo also marked the start of my "sunset" and light phase, which you'll see in the photos to come.

Hadley Mountains

I consider this photo to be the first "Good" photo I ever took. I took it in the summer of 2008 when I went on a trip to Hadley. We were driving home on roads that cut through miles of corn fields, and as the sun was setting I pulled over and snapped this picture of the twilight crescent moon above the black mountains of Hadley without the use of a tripod (I didn't have one at the time). Although it's not the greatest photo ever, at the time I was highly impressed with it, and still feel like it's a photo you might see in National Geographic in an article about the universe.

The Introduction

Around the time I was 10 I had a deep love for Legos. I spent days playing out whole adventures with Legos all around my house. During that time, there was something I always wished I could do, take pictures of my Legos and film my adventures with them. This wish started my journey into the world of photography, and although I never got to photograph my Lego adventures, I got my first camera ( a Canon PowerShot A530) at the age of 14, and the first thing I ever took a picture of, was my last remaining Lego creation.

Ever since that Christmas day in 2006 I have taken around 10,000 photos and have disciplined myself in the art of photography and continue to develop my skills as I enter my last year of high school. I have upgraded my gear slightly from my Canon A530, to a Canon PowerShot SX120 IS, as well as a set of tripods and dozens of memory cards. Post-production came next, and soon I developed a technical skill in programs like Gimp, Paint .NET, and eventually Photoshop. This site is dedicated to my better photos and shows how my photography has changed and developed (no pun intended) over the years. The photos will be put in chronological order, starting with one that I took in 2008 and evolving through styles of landscapes, macro, night-scape, and architecture to name a few. I will provide the story behind each photo (since every photo ever took has one, otherwise the photographer would never have took the picture). Feedback and comments are welcome since I'm still a very young photographer looking for his own style and will greatly appreciate any tips. Just keep in mind, I have a low budget, and nearly all of the pictures up until 2010 were created with my small, and not very powerful Canon A530, so if you have any advice for equipment, you probably won't see it in action until Christmas, or whenever I get a paying job.

P.S.-In case you didn't know, clicking the picture on the blog post will bring you to a much higher resolution of it...