Essays and half-formed thoughts on photography, choral music, and the quiet craft of personal knowledge management — plus whatever else catches my eye that week.
Light, patience, and learning to see the frame before I raise the camera.
Notes from the risers on blend, breath, and the strange math of harmony.
Building a second brain that actually thinks back — notes, links, and systems.
The tangents — books, tools, and rabbit holes that refused to stay closed.
I've lived in Long Beach almost ten years, and for most of that time I never really looked at the coast. It was just there. Then the pandemic hit, i picked up a camera, and the same stretch of water…
Read the essay →In my last article I wrote about why I built Visual Companion — a picture-first routine app for…
My son doesn't read instructions. At seventeen, he's on the medium-to-severe end of the autism spectrum, semi-verbal, and…
Not an AI generated image There’s been this huge wave recently of well-established photographers using AI to generate…
This is my open notebook. I record my thoughts here — mostly to understand them better, and partly in case they're useful to someone else.
By day I'm a curious generalist; by evening I'm behind a viewfinder, in a rehearsal room, or tending an ever-growing web of notes. Lately I've started sharing the good bits on Substack.
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