The image that started it all.
Curious squirrel, Joplin Missouri in 2001 shot on an Olympus C2100
I did not set out to build a twenty five year digital archive in 2001. I simply wanted to see what a digital camera could do. The answer turned out to be far more than I expected. This photographic image of a curious squirrel became the first entry in a lifelong record of my own curiosity, movement, and attention. Looking back, the journey did not feel intentional at the time and yet it became the backbone of how I began to see the world.
The digital era started for me in 2001 with a camera that could barely compete with modern phones, but it was a seismic shift from my film camera. What mattered was the ability to shoot endlessly, experiment freely, and learn fast. That year became the foundation of the visual language I have spent decades refining. It was the beginning of digital photography for me and here I am, celebrating it twenty five years later.
