Photography is where observation, access, and technical craft meet. My work focuses on live music, events, people, and the character of Southern California.
This project documents both the finished images and the systems behind them, from portfolio delivery and asset management to the practical realities of shooting in difficult environments.
Archive note, April 2026: This post is based on early digital asset management design notes from the DAM project and Model Hub. Most digital asset management systems want to become the center of the universe. They ingest the files, create database records, manage metadata, expose search, generate previews, and eventually become the only comfortable way … Read more
How a dining-room table, inherited camera gear, and unclaimed time during lockdown became a photography education.
A practical home-lab experiment using Proxmox, TrueNAS, ZFS, and three USB-attached drives for a photography workflow.
Archive note, October 2025: This post is based on BDC.aztexsystems image-tool notes and later Markit image-pipeline decisions. The BDC image tool started as a practical helper. Email campaigns needed images in predictable sizes. Vehicle photos, logos, footers, banners, and promotional graphics all had to fit templates. Manually resizing and converting assets over and over was … Read more
Archive note, September 2025: This post is based on SweedestMoments infrastructure notes for photography storage and workflow planning. Photography infrastructure has a different center of gravity than a normal website. The website matters. The portfolio matters. Client galleries matter. But the irreplaceable asset is the photo archive: RAW files, edited masters, exports, catalogs, and the … Read more
Archive note, January 30, 2025: This post is based on the recovery work used to retrieve articles from the defunct InlandEmpire.com archive. There is a strange kind of loss that happens when a site disappears. The work is still real. The bylines were real. The shows happened. The photos, deadlines, venue notes, and late-night drafts … Read more