Flickr: A-Ha! Photography

I've gotten into photography at an almost exponential rate as of late. I just finished my college career and from a photo perspective, finished on a high note. I took a photo class, where I learned just a ton, despite my definite non-photo major. I had a Canon Rebel XT that I got over a year ago. I was sold on it after having owned a Powershot and I love the Canon brand. Recently, I upgraded to a Canon 50D. This was a decision I made, even though I wanted a full frame camera, that was financially feasible. I can't wait for the 5D to be cheap enough to justify. I wanna shoot everything and everything, and truly don't want to limit myself to any particular kind of shots yet. I have developed a style, that in my opinion, much like myself, is adaptable.

My gear currently:

Canon 50D
Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5
Canon 50mm f/1.4
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
Lightroom 2.0

I'm a Christian who loves to just think about the world in new and revolutionary ways.

So why Orthogonal? I mean, what does that have to do with anything? Ok, so my reasons are a few fold. First, I wanted a word that described me and my goals in multiple ways. The word orthogonal describes two vectors that when multiplied, they create a zero vector. It also is another way to say perpendicular. So that's my first reason. It reflects on my nerdy side. by being a big nerdy word for lines that cross at 90 degrees (or a line that crosses a point...they're orthogonal to each other too). The second reason is that 90 degree thing. It means they're not going in the same direction. This is how I want my life to be seen. I want to be orthogonal to the world and instead following the way of Christ. This isn't to say that the way of Christ isn't anything like the world. They cross paths, but they're different enough, that his way of sacrifice is pretty different than the way of the world. Finally, I want the world to describe the photos that I take. I want to learn to take truly unique photos that show the world from a completely different perspective than we see it daily. This ends of being a form of worship for me, using God's world that is there as my subject. I think there's a lot of work to be done there, but it is a strong goal of mine. I'm sure there are other ways I could use the orthogonal term to mean something else. Perhaps it means I want to reflect the glory of God not right back up at God, but rather into the plane of this world. I'm still thinking about it, but I love the idea of where it can go without being super cheesy (perhaps it is too late for that).