To the point.

Seapoint Beach on a beautiful winter's day. Normally, I don't make it out to the Point much during the winter months, but I had a friend visiting this weekend who had never experienced the view from this special bit of Maine coastline. The snow on the rocks made for some interesting patterns, but I don't feel like I captured exactly what I was after here. Regardless, it was a wonderful day, and so much fun to play tourist in my own town!

Icing sugar.

Winter has finally arrived... It has been storming off and on since last night. Today, everything is edged in a lovely ice-fringe. I especially liked the way that the ice formed on my backyard firepit grill overnight.

Out with the old.

One of my first shots of the new year... I liked this one because it seems to evoke that "sky's the limit" feeling that I always get when the New Year begins. Anything could happen this year! We wrote things that we wanted to leave in the past on little slips of paper and tossed them into the fire. Watching the sparks spin upwards, taking the remnants of those things left behind was most satisfying and inspiring!

A whole new year.

When I was twelve, I started a journal which I kept faithfully for many years thereafter. Each time I would finish filling up one of those decoratively and self-importantly bound books, I would store it away for posterity in a special box in the back of my closet.

In my twenties, I pulled that box out of storage and spent an afternoon reading about all that was important to me in my teenage years. Sadly, it could be summed up with a single word: boys. I was horrified. Could I have possibly been so shallow?

My photo albums, by contrast, have remained meaningful and often more poignant records of life's experiences. I have always been interested in photography, and have owned a camera for as long as I can remember. And I recorded much, much more than just the boys I knew with my camera--thank goodness!

Twenty years and many, many experiences later, I hope to combine the two mediums (and probably more) with the help of this site, into a multi-media endeavor. I can only hope that this new attempt at chronicling my life will be a more interesting "read" for anyone who might come across it.

With this photo-journal, I hope to record and share some of my experience in the world so far, and hopefully help myself to decide where the journey leads next...