UPDATE OCTOBER 2009

=decipher-reflections — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:45:29 PDT

Holy cow, it's been a long time since I put ANYTHING in here.

So to start - I moved to Portland for college, and then moved back down to Grants Pass for personal reasons. I don't wish to go into any more detail than that. I will be heading back up sometime in the next year or two, but for now I'm happy taking classes at RCC.

As for my photography, I like to think it has grown immensely in the last couple of months. I've fallen in love with using the zoom lens - I think it shows in most of my recent work.

Speaking of work - I need it. If you know of anyone in Grants Pass or the surrounding area who needs senior pictures done (for fairly cheap) then by all means PLEASE have them contact me.

I need new models as well. I love Tanika (and Zac) but they dominate my portfolio and I want more diversity. So if you or someone you know is interested and living nearby then please, contact me.

Now for features, eh?

Eclipse:

Shirley:

itsemma:

OhToast:

Apollo's Child

=decipher-reflections — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:10:49 PST

His music is a amazing. HE is relatively unknown, which I honestly cannot fathom as his talents are so prevalent. If you're into electronica, and soft synth pop you should definitely check him out. His music is absolutely amazing.

His new EP (which is available for download at the link) is absolutely mind blowing.

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This is not a plea for pity, It's a call to arms.

=decipher-reflections — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:53:39 PST

My grandmother was taken off of her ventilator last night. I wasn't informed until afterward. I'm not upset because this is so often the case with my father. I'm not asking for pity, or condolences. I made my peace with her passing more than a week ago. I'm asking you to do something. Nothing hard, or inconvenient.

Just for today, please look outside and acknowledge the beauty that surrounds you. Don't worry about the fact that you have tons of homework and reading to do. Leave the concerns over relationships and drama behind you, if only for a moment. Just watch, look for the symmetry and the beauty. See the world for what it is. Amazing, inspiring, complex, and incredible.

There are so many horrific things going on in the world, it's true. But for some reason when I see the trees and the clouds and the sky and the birds, and the grass, and the animals, it's so easy to see what the earth was and could be. It's so easy to feel connected and a part of something. If you know what to look for.
If you know how to see.

God, there is so much to see.

Appreciate how lucky you are to be alive, and breathing.
Know that it could be much worse, and accept that just to be alive is a beautiful thing.

Please. Just for today.

Things I Am Not

=decipher-reflections — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:03:14 PST

I am not:

complacent.
anti-choice.
silent.
a Flying Potato Monster.
religious.
hopeless, I hope.
controlled.
censored.
an astronaut.
with the one I love.
over you just yet.
put together quite right.
alone, even though it feels that way.
a vegetarian.
included.
whole.
a fan of screamo.
a half-assed photographer.
eighteen for five more months.
a pianist.
a skilled teacher.
right.
introverted.
into World of Warcraft.
a sailor scout.
sensible.
unrealistic about love.
easily manipulated.
a people person.
in control.
a drinker, a smoker, a user.
an alien.
ready.

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UPDATE OCTOBER 2009

Apollo's Child

This is not a plea for pity, It's a call to arms.

Things I Am Not