ebutterfieldphotography
ebutterfieldphotography
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Bio
I love photography. I love looking at the world through a viewfinder, where it isolates the chaos into a manageable little rectangle I can control. I look for abstract patterns in detail, the "touchy-ness" of surfaces viewed so closely their "thingness" disappears; for bursts of rich color in expected and unexpected places; for textures and details.
Lately I've become fixated with Steampunk photography: with dressing up models in pseudo-Victorian clothing and equipping them with props and weapons and tools and backstories from an evolving alternate universe, where steam powers everything from trains to planes to computers; where aether and alchemy and plasmas and a sort of dark magical pseudo-science are commonplace. I enjoy finding an element of darkness and creepiness and fantastical fun, even, in this steamy anachronistic world I'm making. I even process the photos to look old and battered and time-worn, as if this world is being built backwards, reconstructed from its photographic relics.
That's very fancy-talk. Sorry about that.
I also like writing, and if I have the opportunity to write about photography, all the better. In past lives I have been a textbook writer, legal and technical editor, proofreader and copyeditor, English teacher, Publisher, VP of Publishing, and now Director of Products & Services for a large technology nonprofit association, which means I head up a staff that produces, among other things, magazines, journals, books, and online content. Words, words everywhere.
On this blog, I fully intend to be verbose, opinionated, self-absorbed, and puffed-up with a sense of my own importance. I also intend to be humorous, and hopefully helpful, with some insights about photography. I hope to be interesting, or at least generally grammatical. I'm sure, should anyone end up reading these, you'll let me know.
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