Its 3:22am, here in Columbia, S.C. and hopefully my first “blog” will actually work when I click the post button. It has taken me a while to become sold on the idea of “blogging” actually. I’ll admit that I am a pretty private person, so the thought of journaling out my life for everyone to see didn’t strike me as something I wanted to do, and it took me even longer to be sold on the idea that a blog can be journalistic in any way. After doing some thinking recently I came up with an answer though. The only thing that seperates individuals from publications is accountability. So with this forum I am going to hold myself accountable to standards of ethics, impartiality and accuracy that would be expected from a journalist at any major publication. I hope, that through this medium I can share my images, and stories to enlighten other phtographers on what I went through to make the photos, an inform everyone about the issues, causes, and most importantly the people that I photograph. This should be an interesting journey, that I’m looking forward to. So if at any point I begin to ramble incessently, or go off on a tangent please forgive me, I’ll try to catch myself before I go too far. I really don’t know how to end this, but I will just say thanks for reading, and hopefully I’ll have more to say soon.

Cheers

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” Edward R. Murrow