I've been doing a lot of on-line tutorials about how to make a website on Dreamweaver and using Illustrator.  I'm really enjoying the process.  I'm so excited that I'm going to be able to start producing some of the ideas that have been kicking around in my head for a long time. I'm spending so much time trying to get the hang of this stuff that my butt hurts from sitting in the chair.  My legs fall alseep and if I try to walk I fall in a tangled puddle of useless muscle. On...

I've been interested in doing isolation shots and still life for a while. I was really interested in using a light tent to do some of the work. Way too much money, though. I wanted to shoot fairly large objects, say a vase instead of a watch, but the light tents I was interested in ran to 350-500 dollars.  I've been reading a lot of photography web sites. Favorites are studiolighting.net and strobist.com . If you haven't checked them out, you should. One of the valuable lessons ga...

The photos that were exhibited in Naked Tokyo 2008 are up on the nakedtokyo.com site.  My photos can be found here .  For the last little while I have been working on urban nightscapes.     My artist's statement: The " Yoru no  Sojourn" series examines solo nocturnal journeys through Tokyo's urban landscapes. At night, the ambient light can transform mundane, ordinary places into something strange and mysterious. Our sense of place is so strongly informed by ...