Having worked in both new-tech (graphic design, digital photography) and old-tech (oil, watercolor, pen and ink, printmaking) media, in the past 5 years I’ve become delighted  and fascinated by a form which merges old and new: medium-format photography accomplished with home-made pinhole cameras, vintage plastic toy cameras and  modified old cameras culminating in digitally-produced prints. These light, inexpensive toy and outmoded cameras are perfect for travel – be it to unusual locales or in the immediate neighborhood’s less-explored corners. The pictures shown here represent five different journeys with plastic camera in hand. 
 
Of course, the camera technology (or refreshing lack thereof) only plays a supporting role. Wherever I’ve gone in recent years, I’ve had a camera or two with me. It is the unequivocal beauty and inexorable wonders of the world that star. These photos were often made while getting lost following a ray of light or a spectacular bevy of clouds. I love that having a camera in my hand will drive me always to explore a little further down an empty beach, meandering path or other roads less travelled in search of the perfect piece of space in time to capture and share. 
 
These images turn deliberately away from presenting  reality in a direct, one-to-one representational fashion. In lieu of the crisp ultra-realism of much modern photography, I have purposely sought color-shifts, extreme graininess, soft edges and vignetted images. I often shoot right into the sun, or break other basic “rules”. These aesthetic choices mirror the way the world often feels to me – especially in moments of inspiration, in times when the beauty overwhelms all else – changeable and not quite cut and dry.