The Archive

The Archive: Early 2000s Era
Shot before AI. Edited on a CD-ROM. 100% human, 100% mine.

This is where it started — a Nikon D300, no formal training, and a teenager who couldn't stop taking pictures. Every image in this collection was captured over a decade ago, long before AI image generation existed, and edited frame-by-frame in an early version of Photoshop and Lightroom that literally shipped on a disc.

There's a little of everything here: portraits of my own animals, landscapes from wherever I could talk someone into driving me, staged photoshoots I dreamed up myself, and candid shots I got lucky on. No prompts, no presets trained on someone else's work, no shortcuts — just a kid with a camera and a lot of patience.

As my catalog grows, these images will be sorted into their own dedicated collections. For now, consider this the founding archive: real film-era instincts on a digital sensor, untouched by anything that came after.

No AI was used to create or edit any image in this collection — then or now.