Photography

I just like to look. The photographs are what's left over.

For a long time I thought taking pictures was about getting the shot. That changed when I picked up a Pentax 67ii, a 1990s medium-format film camera the size of a brick that gives you ten frames per roll and asks you to slow down for each one.

Photography became a way to notice. The walk to the corner store turns into a hundred small decisions about light and composition I would otherwise have walked past. A dog you've passed a thousand times stands a particular way against a particular fence and you stop. The frame is incidental. The seeing is the work.

I work with a Pentax 67ii, a Nikon Zf, and a Leica M11, depending on what the moment seems to need. The cameras matter less than I'd thought. What matters is being in a state where you'd notice something to photograph in the first place.

The same instinct shows up in coaching, mostly in the silences.

I make photographs every day.

The unedited practice lives at justmenotai.com.