Field Note 001
I don't usually go looking for photographs.
Most of the time, they find me.
It might be the way the light hits something, a person doing something completely ordinary, or a scene I've passed a hundred times that suddenly looks different.
Something makes me stop.
So I look.
I've been doing some version of that for a long time.
I first really started taking photographs in the summer of 2008, during the train-up for my first deployment to Afghanistan. I wasn't thinking about photography as an art of a business. I was just documenting what was around me.
Somewhere along the way, documenting things became noticing them.
These days, the camera I carry most is the one in my pocket.
That means I'm rarely waiting for the right place, the right trip, or the right reason to take a photograph.
Sometimes it's a landscape. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a bird, a building, a meal, a reflection, or a crab I almost walked past.
There doesn't have to be a plan.
There just has to be something worth noticing.
I'm still figuring out what kind of photographer I am.
Maybe I always will be.
But I know what keeps me taking pictures.
Curiosity.
KEEP LOOKING.
