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Kuyler, the Photographer

Sep 27, 2007
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I've done a lot of different things. I think my favorite is taking pictures. I'm not really sure when I started taking pictures, but I know I've always been fairly interested. It just seemed like a perfect blend between technology (something I'm good at by nature) and art (I'm not particularly good with pencils, pens, paintbrushes, crayons, but I can do fingerpaints) I always liked looking at pictures. I thought making them might be fun.

Making pictures is one of the most rewarding things I could imagine, really. You can spend a second thinking about a shot, and get an absolutely amazing shot or hours arranging the scene to take something that doesn't look good at all. But it's all about luck and making your own luck. I love taking pictures (I've got somewhere close to 15 GB of pictures I've taken in the last two years, most of them 2 MP).

By the way, this is the first post in a series about what I do, which isn't really all that grand or anything, I'm just out of other things to write about. (After 300ish blog posts, you would be too)

I take most of my pictures with a Nikon D40x, which is a really slick SLR that works very well. I like it a lot. Before that I actually took most of my pictures on my phone, which made amazing pictures with a shallow field of color. A lot of my pictures have a lot of color since I'm so used to working on the pictures until they're very vibrant. I like contrast. I like clarity. I love clouds and sunsets, streets, flowers, people. Anything really.

You can check out my pictures at my flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/kuyman) or you can look around here. You'll find them.

Why Thank You

Aug 1, 2007
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Vox, you have finally made me feel cool. If you haven't seen it, the picture I took at the beach of the lightning (http://flickr.com/photos/kuyman/855396117/) was featured on the Vox homepage today in the "This is Good' section. Whoever submitted my picture, I love you and you have totally made my summer. Thanks to anyone who bothered to look, it means a lot to me.