me, sometime around 1981
I have spent my life chasing things that excited me. In June 2022 I was diagnosed ADHD ... at fucking 66! Holy shit that explained so much, successes, failures, relationships, childhood, every fucking thing.
In college my focus was theatrical lighting. I wanted to be a lighting designer. In 1975 I bought a Minolta SRT-101 35mm camera so that I could take photos of my lighting designs. In short order I changed my focus in college to photography. I spent 2 years studying photography and felt that I could not learn fast enough in college. So, I went to work in San Francisco at Adolph Gasser's, and I was shooting commercial jobs. Gasser's was the biggest pro camera store in the Bay Area at the time. I was very quickly exposed to nealry every major professional photographer in the area. Within a couple years I was working in Don Fogg's San Francisco studio as his assistant and was doing commercial work during the same period.
During much of that same period I also worked programming large multi-image presentations and technical directing large corporate events. Looking back at that there were so many possible failure points in doing that it is no wonder I found that stimulating.
As I progresssed I became more disillusioned with the expense of studio photography, and more curious about computer graphics. In 1992 I abandoned photography nearly completely and started Dogtown Group. We did presentation graphics for corporate presentations. That business took off very quickly. By 2001, I had about 7 employees and kept a large group of contractors busy. I sold that company in 2002 and shortly created a new company that did the same thing, Bodie Group (which I still own today).
After a nearly 18 year break from photography, I bought a digital camera in 2009. I quickly learned how much I sucked at photography after my break. In order to try to get back to the things I love about photography and slowing my return to photography down, I started to shoot film. Shooting film slowed me down, it made me think about my shots, and took away the instant gratification that I was getting from digital.
If there was one thing I love most about photography, it is that I am constantly excited about how much I have to learn. My images are not "art", my "art" isn't something for me to decide, I am just a guy that points cameras at shit I find interesting.
Thanks for checking out my site. One of these days I may consider selling some prints... but until then, I hope you find what I found interesting... interesting.