My name is Ponders. I'm a designer and tech person by trade, as well as a writer, musician, sound designer, podcaster, and, from the look of things around here, a photographer.
My other projects include the narrative nonfiction art history podcast Accession, and the fairy folk tale fiction podcast The Wanderer.
Additional Photo Credits: Polaroids by Jasper Sparrow. Blurry film picture with flash by Patrick, who was two when the picture was taken.
Just before you reach the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, you'll see a sign that reads:
"Tundra Protection Area: Respect Closures and Tread Lightly in this Fragile World."
The first time I noticed it, I was struck by how poetic the phrase "in this fragile world" is for a sign created by a government agency. (Albeit, my favorite one.)
I love taking pictures that tell stories, and telling stories that change the way we see pictures. Rather than shooting in the boxes of portraits and landscapes, I try to explore the interplay between the two. My favorite pictures exist in the overlap between place and people, geography and humanity, the built world and the stories that fill it.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the philosophy and ethics of photography. And when the shutter releases, I hope all those ideas are captured in the frame. Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't. But I'm always trying to tread lightly in this fragile world.
I shoot a mix of film and digital. My film camera is a Pnetax K-1000 that my grandma took with her to Paris and Alaska in the 80's, which then sat in a closet until I expressed interest in photography in 2022. For digital I'm shooting on a Fuji X-S10.
I had a gold Olympus Stylus Zoom 170 for the day-to-day, but I lost it. If you live in Hamilton, Ontario and have found a golden Olympus Zoom 170 in the past two years, please reach out.
I've had my film developed at a few locations over the years.
As a reward for reading to the bottom of the about section, here are some photos of Moth, Sampson Breadworth III, and Ella.
