"Everybody has a secret world inside of them.  All of the people of the world, I mean everybody.  No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.  Not just one world.  Hundreds of them.  Thousands, maybe"
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Volume 5: A Game of You


For a while now, I've been itching to pick up a camera and find out what it's like on the other side of the lens.

Over the last five years, I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by quite a few very talented and lovely people, and it's taught me that one of the greatest gifts a person can give another is the blessing of seeing yourself through someone else's eyes, and one of the greatest gifts a person can give the world is the blessing of seeing it from a perspective that's all their own.

The world is a mad, wonderful, terrible, beautiful place.
and I want to capture it all, open my hands and my heart and my eyes and get the worlds inside me out of my mind and onto film.
I want to chronicle my life and the places I go, show the people I love why they're beautiful and why I love them in a way that goes beyond words, catch the precious moments that make life worth living, share myself through my own eyes instead of someone else's.

I don't care if I'm brilliant at it or if I don't have a scrap of talent.
The finished product isn't nearly as relevant as the journey of creation, the adventures and stories behind every photograph, the pride a person feels - dating back to childhood drawings and paintings made with fingers instead of brushes - at being able to look at something and say "I made that.  There's a part of my heart and my soul in this thing I brought into the world, I made that."

A substantial chunk of the images probably won't ever see the light of day, and they don't have to.  
I have hopes that years from now, I'll have a thick leather-bound album full of photos and memories, I'll be able to look back and see the places I've been, the people I've met, the worlds I've discovered, the life I've lived in those pages.

Hundreds of worlds.  Thousands, maybe.  Only one life to live.
I'd better get cracking.


I'm a Canon girl, a bias born entirely of sentimentality and nostalgia.
My dream camera is a Canon EOS 1D (mark IV), but it'll be a long time before I have $4500 laying around to devote to a hobby - and that's not even counting the cost of the lenses.  
For now, I'll have to scrimp and save and settle for something a little less ambitious.

I'm fine with that.
Things have a funny way of happening in their own time, when they're good and ready (and not a second sooner).

Until then, other people's cameras will tell my stories.