Welcome to My New Home for my “Professional” Photography

Plumb­ing

Wel­come!  This web­site is here pri­mar­ily to show­case my peo­ple pho­tog­ra­phy, since that’s one  of the things I love to do, and one of the things I hope to get some work doing!  How­ever, I also have a love of shoot­ing derelict things–landscapes, bro­ken build­ings, rusted out cars… any­thing that has a human stain, that shows evi­dence that some­one was there once, and this is what was left behind.  I have so often found things that tell a story–a quickly aban­doned trailer, a car left to rot, a bus rest­ing mys­te­ri­ously back in the woods.

Since the blog is my place to share what I’m think­ing and what I’m shoot­ing other than peo­ple, I thought it fit­ting that my first blog should fea­ture some pho­tos from the Old Mur­phy School in Durham.  This school was one of my very first pho­to­graphic sub­jects, and I have returned a few times to shoot the exte­rior.  Recently, how­ever, the prop­erty has been pur­chased and is now under­go­ing ren­o­va­tion.  I love that I had the oppor­tu­nity to doc­u­ment it before its change, and I love that because of the ren­o­va­tion I had the oppor­tu­nity to shoot inside the school a bit.  Sadly, many of the things that were prob­a­bly inside have already been removed as the ren­o­va­tion moves along.  Still, I found some things to shoot, and enjoyed tak­ing a lit­tle break from peo­ple photos.

I hope that you enjoy the pho­tos you find on the site, and I hope to grow the site and the blog to include all of my more “seri­ous” pho­tog­ra­phy.  I also want to take a moment to thank Eli for build­ing this new home for me.