July 13, 2011
And in that week, we had built a small and temporary world for ourselves.
“They sat there in the fresh young darkness close together.”Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 

Lakeside Villas, San Antonio, TX: 22 February 2011

And in that week, we had built a small and temporary world for ourselves.

“They sat there in the fresh young darkness close together.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Lakeside Villas, San Antonio, TX: 22 February 2011

July 14, 2011
Dan, home after Navy Training Command clinicals.
“It is common for those who have glimpsed something beautiful to express regret at not having been able to photograph it.  So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of beautiful.”—Susan Sontag, On Photography
San Antonio, TX: 7 April 2011

Dan, home after Navy Training Command clinicals.

“It is common for those who have glimpsed something beautiful to express regret at not having been able to photograph it.  So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of beautiful.”

—Susan Sontag, On Photography

San Antonio, TX: 7 April 2011

July 14, 2011
Cracker-Jacked Dan, post uniform inspection and hating every minute of it. Well, not his Warsteiner and Lone Star hybrid.
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 12 April 2011

Cracker-Jacked Dan, post uniform inspection and hating every minute of it. Well, not his Warsteiner and Lone Star hybrid.

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX: 12 April 2011

July 14, 2011
Lakeside Villas, San Antonio, TX: 1 April 2011

Lakeside Villas, San Antonio, TX: 1 April 2011

July 14, 2011
Six Flags: Fiesta, San Antonio, TX: 4 April 2011

Six Flags: Fiesta, San Antonio, TX: 4 April 2011

July 26, 2011
Taken from the Honda’s sun roof, San Antonio, TX: 13 April 2011

Taken from the Honda’s sun roof, San Antonio, TX: 13 April 2011

July 26, 2011
Nothing quite like excess, abundance, the promise of more.
“This has happened a million times; a strange startling response to the emptiness of things once full- the refrigerator, the gas tank, the medicine bottle, the belly. Like all humans, he is learning disabled when it comes to empty. He will always be surprised.”—Sunshine O’Donnell, Consumption
East Side, San Antonio, TX: April 2011

Nothing quite like excess, abundance, the promise of more.

“This has happened a million times; a strange startling response to the emptiness of things once full- the refrigerator, the gas tank, the medicine bottle, the belly. Like all humans, he is learning disabled when it comes to empty. He will always be surprised.”

—Sunshine O’Donnell, Consumption

East Side, San Antonio, TX: April 2011

July 29, 2011
Buy more, save more.
Ingram Park Mall, San Antonio, TX: 2 April 2011

Buy more, save more.

Ingram Park Mall, San Antonio, TX: 2 April 2011

September 7, 2011
In this light.
“A waterfall is a self-correcting maladjustment of stream to structure, and so, for all I know, is technique.”—Democracy, Joan Didion
Self portrait from my “I live from the neck up” series, San Antonio, TX: 6 April 2011

In this light.

“A waterfall is a self-correcting maladjustment of stream to structure, and so, for all I know, is technique.”
Democracy, Joan Didion

Self portrait from my “I live from the neck up” series, San Antonio, TX: 6 April 2011

September 22, 2011
Months later, I am still elated that a photo of mine was featured on Magnum Photos’ Postcards From America project.  It makes me drunk with hubris that Alec Soth was even looking at my photography.
Arcade, Six Flags: Fiesta, San Antonio, TX: April 2011

Months later, I am still elated that a photo of mine was featured on Magnum Photos’ Postcards From America project.  It makes me drunk with hubris that Alec Soth was even looking at my photography.

Arcade, Six Flags: Fiesta, San Antonio, TX: April 2011