photo menu¶ Taking pictures is much of what I do, but I’m not specifically a photographer. While I think of myself as someone who makes things with his hands, almost everything I make involves a computer. I shoot purely digital because I am mostly interested in photography as an input to digital media. ¶ Ironically, the essentially free cost of digital exposures has allowed me to explore picture taking/making in ways I never could have with film, and I’m more of a photographer than I ever was before. Though I understand most basic technical concepts, I am not very technical. I like pictures and stories and ideas. ¶ In school, and sporadically after, I dabbled with many cameras: a handmade pinhole camera; instamatics & disposables; rangefinders, SLRs and TLRs; polaroids and photo booths; video and film moving picture cameras. Once I started to get access to decent digital cameras in the late 90s I found myself shooting more and more. 
Coolpix 990, 4500 ¶ Shots from 2001-2003 were taken with my beloved retired Nikon Coolpix 990, the camera which made picture taking habitual for me. I replaced that with a Coolpix 4500, already discontinued by the time I bought it. ¶ Nikon abandoned this excellent swivelling design for two years, but has finally made a new my-kind-of-Coolpix. Yay. Thanks for the heads up, Milan. ¶ Lately I have been using an Olympus Stylus 720SW, which is small (the size of a deck of cards) and waterproof. I will probably invest in a removable lense digital system at some point, so I can use nice lenses, but I am not in a hurry.
¶ And please, if you use my work for something
cool like this page of fake album covers (see #019),
please let me know. I only stumbled upon this page by chance.
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