Photography in the snow is always a challenge for me. Living in the American south, it isn’t a problem I get a lot of opportunity to work on. It doesn’t help that I really only get to get out with my camera on very specific time. The weather might be terrible and the light might…

I returned to writing a blog because I wanted an outlet for the impulse to post on Instagram. Social Media has been a source of a lot of anxiety in the past year. Granted, the real reason for the anxiety doesn’t go away by avoiding Social Media, but I kinda have to live in ignorance…

Winter 2026 has been rough. I’ve been drowning at work and I’m beginning to understand why the stats on autistic employment are so bad. I have no idea what is expected of me or how I fit into the machinery of my workplace. This is felt as an existential threat, as I’m very aware that…

Despite many of my favorite historic photographers being into experimentation with different photographic processes, I’ve never had much interest in it. I always felt like that kind of work required the kind of vision that was talked about with “previsualization” or that it needed to be something done with chemicals and darkrooms to have merit.…

The tarot is a really cool tool to learn. Learning the history, meaning, and internal significance of the symbols and archetypes present in the cards exposes you to the untalked about undercurrent of esotericism and superstition in the “western world”. We tend to think of “western” civilization as one built on rationalism and reason, but…