# 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.

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*Austin, TX · 2026 · NIKON Z f*

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.

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*Austin, TX · 2026 · Hasselblad X2D II 100C*

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.

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*Austin, TX · 2026 · Hasselblad X2D II 100C*

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

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*Austin, TX · 2026 · Hasselblad X2D II 100C*

I make photographs every day.

The unedited practice lives at [justmenotai.com](https://justmenotai.com).