Hello…

Instagram is not a photography website. Let’s start there.

It’s fantastic, sure. The reach is wild. You can post a photo, and in seconds, people from all over the world can see it, like it, comment with a fire emoji, or, more likely, just scroll past it on their way to a meme or a football clip. Instagram is a machine built to keep you there. It’s not designed for lingering. It’s not designed for depth. It’s built for the hit—the dopamine rush of the next thing, and the next, and the next.

And we all know this. We all complain about it. But we stay, because where else do you go? Flickr? That old cathedral of images where no one goes anymore, where interaction is polite but slow? It was built for photography, but it lacks the electric pulse of Instagram.

So we try to have our cake and eat it. We want the reach, the engagement, but we also want thoughtful conversations, slow looking, real appreciation. We want photography to matter in a space that is optimized for everything else—memes, clout, trending audio, celebrity gossip, half-naked influencers, dog updates, dinner photos.

The reality? If you care about photography—your photography—you need your own space. A website. A place where your work isn’t crammed between a reel of a guy kicking a water bottle off a roof and a sponsored ad for sneakers you thought about buying. A place where your photos aren’t dictated by the algorithm, where they live on your terms, where they can breathe.

That’s why this site exists. Not to fight Instagram, not to replace it, but to carve out a little corner of the internet where photography—my photography—gets to matter.

So welcome. Have a look around. There’s no algorithm here, no pressure to like, no race for engagement. Just pictures. Take your time.

And if you feel like it, let’s talk photography.

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