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Hello World, i work as a photographer based out of Honolulu, Hawaii.

i am an enigma. a paradox. whoa. just joking !

new paradigms await all of us. ichi go ichi e !

my current passion is to create tools. photographic tools, lenses, machined and or hand made. also, ceramic / yakimono tools. cocobolo ribs, specialized trimming tools, one offs. etc.

i love to travel, drink fantastic wines (syrah, shiraz, petit syrah, zins, bordeaux, tempranillo, ripassa, brunello, burgundy ), enjoy WONDERful Nihonshu (sake) and enjoy SCRUMPTIOUS FOOD. i love nihonshu, double fermented rice wine. koshino kambai cho tokusen, masumi yumedono, Masumi nanago, Masumi Sanka, minotouya tousuke (niigata), okunomatsu, Mu, and MORE !

I'm a photography purist. All my photographs are shot 'AS IS' no Photoshop manipulations, very strict about this. all i do is remove dust. Because of my journalism background i am a stickler. All images are created in camera. i am sort of anti-photoshop. just minor burn/dodge that's it. i try to keep the integrity of the image. one caveat are the panoramic stitched images.

One of my photographic philosophies is to 'put the viewer where he or she cannot be'. in short, in this competitive photographic market there are two key factors that finesses the image, light and vision. the ability to give a 'view' or perspective that hasn't been 'seen' before affords the photograph/s to transcend normality and mediocrity.

My photographs have appeared in: The New York Times, Corbis, Getty, The International Herald Tribune, Readers Digest, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and more. thanks for looking !

NEW CERAMIC ONLINE GALLERY/SHOP

corylum.etsy.com

please check out my ceramic art at: www.corylumphoto.com.

Recently, i have been studying tea ( cha no yu). in vino vitae....

Carpe Diem ! Sadly, most of my current work needs to sit a while until the publications that hired me run the photographs, so apologies ahead for the embargo. thanks for looking ! Please view my latest ceramic creations.

Been reading an excellent book by Sogyal Rinpoche called "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". excerpt from the book. 'The Great Deception' by Chuang Tzu. "The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid avoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness ! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present." Carpe Diem ! hehe

List of Gear ( sometimes changing & many not listed)
also the gear is finite, the imagination infinite.

Canon digital SLRs

Canon 5D mark II

various canon lenses

Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye

Nikkor 18mm

Nikkor AIS 105mm f/1.8 CLA'd by Steve Serota thanks steve

Super Ricohflex w/8cm anastigmat (amazing camera)

Graflex Speedgraphic Pacemaker 4x5 w/ Kodak aero Ektrar 7-inch f/2.5 (amazing BOKEH !)

Holga 6x6cm

HexOmniscope (6 lens pinhole)

Konica Hexar sweet & sharp !

Ricohflex TLR

THANKS MATT Abelson / Abelson Scope Works
www.abelsonscopeworks.com/



Custom made Lensbaby 2.0 bellows (MACRO)


Linhof Technika III 4x5 w/zeiss luminar lenses, etc.

various lighting. First choice -- LED flashlight, Aaron Jones Hosemaster Light Brush, Profoto, Octabank, Big 7-foot diameter Jumbrella, 3-degree gridspots, grip gear, Manfrotto Avenger stuffs, clamps. u name it. below is the portable lighting post strobist. my post strobist life is using Armatar 100 and 200 units, handmade grid spots w/ coroplast. corogated plastic. works great !




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