In this age of technical marvels, it’s become remarkably easy to carry a ‘camera’ everywhere you go, more than likely inside your smartphone. But when this pre-smartphone series was created, megapixels were few, technology was far less advanced, and overall image quality left much to be desired.

Yet I always found comfort in knowing I had a ‘camera’ nearby for those unexpected photo opportunities, especially when my Nikon was, unfortunately, resting at home. For years, I saved nearly every picture I took on my cell phone, never quite sure what I’d do with them. The quality wasn’t what I was used to, nor what I expected as a foundation for my art.

Then one day, I decided to get digitally creative with a few of these images on my computer. Almost immediately, and to my surprise, the results gave me a sense of direction. From that point on, I felt driven to create simple art captured in a novel way: images that could stand on their own and, hopefully, earn their own merit with an audience in the future… just as they do for me.

This marks the first of two series’ initially captured with a cell phone camera that I’ve added to my collection.

Circa 2004-2006.