My Photography Stuff

Photography is an expensive and addicting hobby - especially when you know that, as the artist using the equipment, you are not all that great and do not take the necessary time to study techniques to better your use of the equipment.

Here's my inventory:

Cameras

HTC Fuze Cellphone (not in photo - because I used it to take this "not-so-great" photo)

Canon Rebel XT

     Lenses
          18-55mm (stock with the camera kit)
          70-300mm Zoom IS
          75-300mm Zoom (not used - wanna buy it?)
     Flashes
          Speedlite 430EXII
Olympus Stylus 1010 (for portability)

Accessories

Canon Delux Backpack

Canon DSLR Gadget Bag

Canon ET-65B Lens Shield

Dynex DX-TRP60 Tripod

Manfrotto Monopod

Various Lens Filters

Software

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

Olympus Master 2

Other Stuff

Kodak ESP9 All-In-One Printer

I also use http://www.shutterbug.com/ and http://www.qoop.com/ to order prints

So, why do I spend the money when I know I am no-where near being the next Ansel Adams or Annie Lebowitz and have no intentions of being so? Well, for one thing, it gets me out of the apartment. Another thing is that I am an observer of life. I don't search for the extra-ordinary but sometimes the ordinary becomes the extra-ordinary, at least to my eyes, and I try to capture those moments.

William S Burroughs once said,

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed.

An artist is making something exist by observing it.

And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it.

I call it 'creative observation.'"

I could not have said it better myself. My goal as an artist - is to create a world in which the ordinary becomes the extra-ordinary through 'creative observation.'

I hope you all enjoy.