2024
Solar Eclipse
April 8th, 2024
In lieu of a proper solar filter, heavy cloud cover proves to be helpful in photographing the April 2024 solar eclipse.
2023
RICKETTS GLEN STATE PARK
Autumn Amble
October 2023
In late October, I took a trip to see 21 waterfalls in Benton, PA. It was a great hike and a great opportunity to get out and practice some photography.
AVALON
August 2023
Each morning during a week in August, I walked 2 to 3 miles while photographing the sunrise and the beach in Avalon, NJ. This was my third year working on my Avalon series.
BFEC
Spring & Summer 2023
After watching the fall and winter come and go, I more regularly walked and photographed life along the trails in the Brown Family Environmental Center during the spring and summer.
Gund Gallery
Spring 2023
In spring 2023, I covered three projects for the gallery: (1) the spring 2023 Student Art Loan pickup day, (2) the opening reception of their spring exhibition Sympathy for the Translator, and (3) exterior photos for their new website.
Utah Trip
February 2023
In mid February 2023, I took a trip to Eden, Utah, for some skiing. During the mornings and evenings away from the ski resorts, I photographed the views from the valley.
BFEC
Winter Wander
January 2023
One weekend, to do something, I walked a half marathon through a snowstorm and I brought my camera. During this project, I explored the landscape as much as distractions and loneliness.
2022
Total Lunar Eclipse
November 2022
Early in the morning on November 8th, 2022, central Ohio had great weather conditions for this rare blood moon! This was a total lunar eclipse that was at full eclipse during sunrise, which only happens roughly once per decade.
Kenyon College
Fall 2022
Once again, I managed to capture the magical beauty that is autumn in Gambier, Ohio.
BFEC
Autumn Amble
Fall 2022
Having these trails just a short walk beyond my front door was perfect for a few days spent photographing the fall foliage.
Kenyon College
My Top 10 Undergraduate Photos
May 2022
From fall 2019 to spring 2022, I photographed scenes of life in Gambier, Ohio, as a student at Kenyon. Here, I take a closer look at 10 of my favorite photos and give some background information of how each image was created.
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Vernal Venture
May 2022
In mid May 2022 during my final weeks—and finals week—on campus as a senior, I wanted to get outside to enjoy the spring weather.
塞翁失马安知非福
May 2022
As part of a final project during my senior year of college, I created a memento to honor my Chinese and Studio Art studies, combining my interests in the ancient Chinese poem《塞翁失马，安知非福》, woodworking, pyrography, and art.
2022 Kenyon College Home Invitational
Time Splice II
April 2022
Like spring 2021, I ended my semester with a photoshop project involving collapsing a time within a single image. This project is a fitting end to both my collegiate running career and academic photography career.
KCXC & KCTF
2021-2022
During my last year with Kenyon’s Men’s Cross-country and Men’s Track team, I took every opportunity I had to photograph my teammates.
Running Routes HeatMaps
March 2022
For a contemporary art course that I completed during spring 2022, our second project concerned methods of representing a personal archive. To visualize my undergraduate time as a runner for Kenyon’s cross-country and track teams, I created a wooden box with pyrography markings to make literal heatmaps of my running routes.
West Virginia
March 2022
During the second week of spring break 2022, I stayed in Fayetteville, West Virginia, with seven of my friends from the Kenyon College Track & Field distance squad. Our trip consists of running and hiking the nearby trails and exploring the views around the New River Gorge National Park.
KCXC PROFILES
February 2022
During my last semester at Kenyon College, I made a studio portrait series of my fellow Kenyon College Men’s Cross Country runners.
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Bexley Hall
January 2022
In February 2022, Kenyon’s Office of Communications hired me to photograph Bexley Hall for the feature story in Kenyon Alumni Magazine summer 2022 issue (volume 44.1), “The Many Lives of Bexley Hall.”
Kenyon College
Winter 2022
Even though Gambier is highly regarded thanks to its beautiful autumns, winter in Gambier grew to be my favorite season.
2021
Kenyon College
Fall 2021
During my last fall as a student, I fully embraced photographing events and campus life. Fall 2021 was my most wide-ranging semester of photo work to date.
Ohio
Autumn Amble
Fall 2021
I revisited the Brown Family Environmental Center for my yearly Amble. I also took a trip to the Mohican State Park for a long run and made some photos with my KCXC buddies.
Kenyon College
Late Summer 2021
At the start of the academic year, I photographed campus during a few foggy mornings. I had sets of fall and winter foggy pictures, so I was happy to finally have some summer foggy days.
Kenyon College
Summer 2021
During a quiet weekend in summer, I visited campus and enjoyed photographing a lush summer afternoon—something that was completely new to me.
AVALON
August 2021
Each morning during a week in August, I walked down to the beach and photographing the sunrise and the waves in Avalon, NJ. This was my second year working on my Avalon series.
Kenyon College
Mather 405
Spring 2021
At the end of my third year in Mather Hall, I realized that I unintentionally created a typology of views from my dorm room window.
Kenyon College
Spring 2021
Between classes, tests, homework, and finals, I photographed two mini-series during spring 2021: one on foggy spring mornings and one capturing spring weather during finals week.
Kenyon College
Time Splices
April 2021
Using a camera and tripod to capture the images, and then a whole bunch of math, time, and tedious Photoshop work, I managed to create a set of seamless time lapse images of sunrises and sunsets at Kenyon.
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Time Splices Explained
April 2021
I had a lot of fun figuring out how to create seamless time lapse images. Here is a walkthrough detailing the entire process.
Kenyon College
Winter 2021
After one and a half semesters of fully remote work and an extended winter break, I was eager to get back to Gambier to photograph the snow.
2020
MANHEIM
AUTUMN AMBLE
Fall 2020
During fall 2020, I studied remotely in Manheim, PA. To get out of the house for another solo autumn photography outing, I went to a nearby trail that my mother and I hiked our dogs on almost every week that year.
AVALON
August 2020
After a disappointing spring of photography, I was excited to spend some mornings in Avalon, NJ, photographing the sunrises and beach life.
Kenyon College
Winter 2020
My first winter in Gambier with a real camera sparked my enjoyment of winter photography.
2019
Kenyon College
Fall 2019
This was my first semester with a non-phone camera. Gambier was a great place to continue to learn some camera basics. Almost immediately, my work caught the eye of Kenyon’s Office of Communications.
BFEC
Autumn Amble
Fall 2019
In my first real autumn season of photography at Kenyon College, I thought it would be fitting to venture out one weekend to the Brown Family Environmental Center paths for a nice walk through the leaves.