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Pictures I done took.

My manual camera is a Minolta X-370N, which I've had since circa 1990. It was a gift from my brother. The original lens went kaput, so I started using a Vivitar 28-70mm around 1995. I finally caved in and got myself a digital SLR at the end of 2010. It's a Canon T2i.

My main photographic loves are nature, and an aesthetic called wabi-sabi, which is about finding beauty in the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete. Note that the Japanese word for rust is pronounced "sabi". Oh, and I'm also kind of obsessed with taking pictures of men I find attractive.

I'm old-fashioned when it comes to photography. I used to call my manual camera my "real" camera and use my digital point-and-shoot just for snapshots. Lately, though, I've found myself getting lulled by how cheap and convenient it is to use a digital. I remain conflicted on this issue. One of the major drawbacks of digital photography is that its cheapness and flexibility make it too easy, encouraging conceptual laziness and self-indulgence more often than inspired experimentation (I paraphrased this last bit from a comment by critic Scott Tobias). There's a great article on this topic here.

Beyond some cropping and gamma correction, I'm not a big fan of manipulating photographs. If a photo only becomes interesting through manipulation, the technology is to be praised, not the photographer.

Yes, I know the watermark is disruptive, but I have to protect my work.