Welcome dear visitor to MMC’s proper job blog. Yes and here we go with yet another photographer doing another god damn blog. Who the hell has got time for all this anyway? I think the secret is to not waste anyone’s time here. Neither yours nor mine.  So let’s get moving.

Photography is a huge part of my life but it is not the only part of my life so this blog will not be about photography all of the time.  It’s just a tool that I use to give a louder voice to the other things I’m preoccupied with. I suppose that is what artists are. People using tools to make themselves heard because sometimes we need louder voices to emphasize the things we think and care about. Photography is a passion and again it is not my only one. The one thing I will say about it is that it has for the past 15 years always been with me and I suspect always will. This blog just like photography is going to be another tool to illustrate the things going on around me that keep me going from one day to the next.

I mulled over what I would write about as an introductory sort of spiel and then well I gave up, said sod that. I’m going to share some photos with you, self portraits in fact that I tackled in the last couple of months. Self portraiture and the Nude are two areas that I felt I have sort of neglected and they were areas I wanted to investigate. I ended up doing these pictures 3 weeks apart and they both sort of just happened spur of the moment. I shot them because the light prompted me to do so and there was no one else around to grab except me. However they are very personal explorations and ones I felt I had to do. Turning the camera on oneself can be quite humbling. I figure if I put others through it that I should at least say I’ve done it to myself too. I may not get this personal again.