In this age of technical marvel it’s become a lot easier to carry a ‘camera’ with you everywhere you go, and more than likely it’s inside your smart phone. Back when this pre-smartphone series was created, the megapixels weren’t as many, technology wasn’t as advanced, and the over all image quality wasn’t optimum. Yet I was always comforted knowing I had a ‘camera’ nearby when along came a photo opportunity, and my Nikon was unfortunately home in it’s bed. After years of blindly saving almost every picture I took via my cell phone, always wondering what in the heck I would do with them since the quality wasn’t what I was used to, nor expect as a basis for my fine art, I one day decided to get creative digitally via editing software with a couple of them. Almost immediately, and to my astonishment, the given results gave me direction. It was then I found myself on quest to create simple art, captured in a novel way, that could stand on their own, and hopefully earn their own merit with a future audience…  the way they do for me.

This marks the second… and most recent… series in my collection born from the humble cell phone camera. Since both predate the smart phone era, that makes their inclusion all the more unexpected. They say the best camera is the one you have with you… and who was I to argue with that kind of wisdom?

Circa 2011-2014.