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Hello SG Land!!!

Looking forward to being involved in the community here. I've been a longtime SG fan but it's mostly been a thing in the background of my mind.

A bit of context... I started photography at a pretty young age, with film, about a year or two before the first DSLRs. Learned how to develop and process my own stuff and did it like that for about a decade until I was old enough to get a decent enough job to help me upgrade to digital. I got introduced to SG in my mid teens through some printed material that belonged to the older brother of a friend and became captivated by it. And back then it really was unlike anything I had seen in terms of style. From then to now, SG represents the most breathtakingly gorgeous, ravishing and charming women I have ever seen. You can guess how that goes for a young boy but it wasn't just the models that got my attention...

Really it was the photographers, I envied them. For their tools and their skill at using them. For their access to locations and sets or their ingenuity in creating them or using an existing environment. For the quality of their work. To produce like they could was a huge creative aspiration, even though I've never really been interested in being an SG photographer. People aren't really my subject matter and I don't yet know how I would communicate what I'm trying to as an artist through this kind of work.

A bit more about me. I'm a 29 year old native Oregonian. Grew up all over along the west coast before we finally settled in Portland. For the most part that's where I've been. There are a few instances where I've moved to a small town or a cabin in the woods in Oregon when career pressures and overall city life have taken too much of a toll on me. Been back in PDX for a few years now and I think I'm in it for the long haul. As I get older I'm starting to realize the people, places and things that I really care about are here.

I've been a creator/maker my whole life, for as long as I have had the motor skills to make anything. Not just photo. I'm kinda all over the place with a bit of drawing, writing, print, sculpture, woodworking, digital art/cgi, getting back into making music and I've been able to integrate programming into pretty much all of this. If I don't know how to do something or don't have experience, I take however many days, months, or years it takes to change that. Almost all of my thoughts and time are occupied doing any of these things for myself or trying to enable and foster that creative capacity in others. My whole life philosophy revolves around maximizing creation, which necessitates everyone having the capacity to create things =P

Never been big on social media. Just too much of a hassle and in terms of sharing my work nothing has ever really fit the presentation format of what I want to do or the kinds of things I want to share. I'm on FB for real friends, fam and a few collaborators. And IG... I have mixed feelings and things to say about it another day...

As for what I want to try to do here? Mostly just break out of the social bubble I've been in for a while now. I've been very dissatisfied with the kinds of people in my life the past few years and there are very few individuals I have any real desire to talk to. Most people just do not get me and no matter how much I try or how patient I am most people just aren't equipped to. Pretty much everything I think about goes unsaid because I feel that even if it is heard, it won't be understood. So I guess I'm just seeking an outlet where I feel I can express myself honestly. From the little bit of browsing around the blogs and groups on here I think this might be a place where I could do that.

Probably gonna share a bit of my own visual and written work and the work of others who I feel deserve more attention and that others here might like. Random thoughts and creative bits. Talking about the world, nature and humans. Maybe some more academic and sciency stuff if people show interest in that. Thoughts on the past/present/future and looking from both a natural and historical perspective. Space! Probably some gaming stuff too, though I have substantially less time for games these days -_- Some music featuring mellow melodies, chill vibes and dope beats. Existential shit. Sprinklings of hermetic philosophy. Thoughts on sex, romance, love and relationships because that's the really heavy stuff lol.

Ya know, I could pretty much write forever ^_^

But I have a few things to do around the house and some photos to go through.

So I think that's all for the moment.