An interest in photography began as a kind of notetaking for the writing process… a (dangerous?) kind of cheat or supplement to journaling. Of course the overlap of the poetic image and the photographic image isn’t a huge leap, though they’re totally different species with different capacities. For better or worse, I’m engaged with it, partly because it turns out also to be a practical and marketable tool as a complement to professional pursuits (like the consulting I did for so long, and also magazine publishing). Wielded well, like writing, it does hone the eye—attention, attentiveness, observation (meaning observant-ness). I guess I’ve become an earnest amateur ready, maybe, to level up, on one hand, and reluctant to divert creative energy away from writing, on the other.

Ambivalence (and screen time either way) aside, my photographic work has actually been commissioned, published, and/or exhibited by Pacific NW Magazine/The Seattle Times, Alaska Magazine, Orion Magazine, Anchorage Museum, Rasmuson Foundation, artist Kristin Link/Timber Press (Hachette Book Group), Hirmer Publishers, author Corinna Cook, Anchorage Press, Terrain.org, and many more.

The ‘galleries’ below are not presented with any kind of professional stance whatsoever, but as casual photo albums inclusive of bad phone snaps, ancient film images, many pics by others, a few “nice” images I made with my one “real” camera, and various memory joggers dumped for ease of reference—my own, really—later on. Welcome to peruse if you choose. More pics that aren’t below can be found over in blog posts.