1st Post

Okay, so I made this website on a whim, and I don’t know if I’m going to keep up with it, but we’ll see. This is my first post and maybe my last, who knows!

Every year, I take hundreds of photographs that I’m really proud of, but I only post a tiny fraction of them to Instagram. It’s a shame that they’re just sitting in a folder on my computer, so I figured maybe I could share them here, someplace with more creative freedom and fewer eyes to look at what I'm doing.

I remember during the lei’ing at my high school graduation, Alexis and Keola took turns following me around with a camera, and for a graduation present, Aunty Nani gave me a book with all the pictures they took. It wasn’t just a photo album or scrapbook thrown together (nothing against those), but it was uploaded online, edited, then printed and shipped. It was a beautiful gift that looked very professional. Ever since, I’ve always wanted to make one of my own…and I still want to one day…but not today. I think a book like that is great for celebrating an event, but I wanted something more flexible, so why not a website?

The main purpose of this site is to be a gallery for all the nice pictures that didn’t make it to Instagram. I thought it’d be fun to add a blog section so I can supplement my photo dumps with word dumps.

I’m not planning to ever use photography in a professional capacity. But who knows, maybe one day I could turn this into a portfolio or something more official.