My last web site was largely about technology (and is largely defunct, too...), this one's going to be about light and photography. Photo receptive is a bit of a play on words, you can read into it what you want.

I'm by no means a professional photographer - maybe I'm at enthusiast level, but the real reason I'm into photography is that it's so satisfing in many different ways.

I love a good photo and enjoy learning about and looking at the work of other photographers.

When I see something interesting, particularly if it involves some intriguing beams of light or shadows I try to figure out what's going on and play with the light while trying capture an image to preserve what I'm seeing.

Sometimes it's the meditative aspect of seeing something around town or out in nature and spending time taking photos of what I see. I've spent many a happy hours sitting in a canoe at the edge of a pond just looking and taking pictures of the reeds and bugs and whatever else comes along.

Making greeting cards for friends and family has been my main means of getting into printing photos at home. My rules are simple: I can't send the same card to the same person twice and I have to really like the card image and design - I can't just slap something together and call it a day.

Rule number 1 is easily solved with a spreadsheet but rule number 2 can cause me to work on something for hours, if not days. This is mostly what happens each year when late November rolls around and I want to make a new holiday card. The holiday card is born out of inspiration and anguish in varying ratios.

Inspiration sends me down pathways of having and idea and then having to develop my own way of making it real. That's where anguish takes over - it's a creative process of using all the tools I have to make