My name is Tony. I take pictures. I've alwas been obsessed with interesting, eye-catching, and thought-provoking images. Recently, I learned that my grandfather was an avid photo enthusiast in the 50s and 60s. Growing up in the 1980s, my father was an avid photo enthusiast: we had a dark room in our basement, a PC with Photoshop 2.0 and a scanner, and a half dozen cameras I scarcely understood at the time. I took some photo classes in the summer as a child, but mostly it was playing with my dad in the darkroom that engrained photography into me. In high school my photographic inclination waned for a few years. In college I started getting interested again, but could only afford cheapish digital point and shoot cameras.

Then, while in graduate school studying something completely unrelated to photography, I got fed up with the creative limitations of my small pocket point and shoot digital camera. I broke out my dad's old film SLR and went to town. I re-learned all the technical shooting jargon, and learned lots of new stuff I never knew, or wouldn't have understood as a child. After spending far too much money on film and devlopment, I took the money-saving pluge of getting a DSLR and a new set of lenses. Since then, I've been honing my photographic skills and pushing myself to become a better photographer all the time.

I would write down my philosophy regarding photography, but it keeps changing! I used to believe in natural light photography: death before flash until I found out how to do flash correctly! Then I started finding images that while trite in natural light, became fascinating under artificial lighting conditions. I was shooting with someone who said "I'm not going to waste film on that, that's not a good shot" I took it anyway (who cares, I shoot ditigal!). It was one of the best shots of the day. So my philosophy has become: right and wrong, good and bad photography is not a linearly separable problem, no matter how high a dimension you work in. Translated to non-nerd that means there's no way EVER to consistently predict what will be good and what will be bad. You just gotta try and find out.

I'm reasonably good (sometiems) at keeping stuff current (within a month?) in my blog and notoriously bad at updating static sections of my site such as this one. In other words, check out my blog for the latest info.

My Current Toy Box

I'm a Canon kind of guy. I shoot with a Canon 5D and a Canon 20D. I shoot through the following lenses

• Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
• Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
• Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L
• Canon EF 1.4xII f= f-1stop