We're in the age of the digital camera, the digital photo manipulator, and eventually the digital shot glass. As a result, everyone can take photos, even untalented pricks like myself. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because now we can see parts of the world we probably wouldn't have a decade ago. And better is that we can see it raw, unpolished, and most importantly, -as it is-.

See, there's something lingering around the net that exemplifies my problems with the digital age of photography, and it's the constant tooling around with photos themselves. When someone presents an image of a far off place, I'm interested because I -want to see that place-. And instead I get that artist's techno-coloured, gaussian-blurred idea of what they feel improves it.

I am not skilled with a camera. I stagger around and flop about like a fish breathing air, and oft-times am pretty nervous that I'm about to get thrown off someone's private land (thankfully Morrow Mountain is public territory). But when I put up a picture, by god it's not gussied up for my own personal tastes. That's how it looked at the time, and that's what I want you guys to see.

Photography as I view it, is travel voyeurism. It's a gateway to places I want to be. And I know someone out there looks at North Carolina and feels that's a place they'd want to be. And that's what I'm here to do. Show you that, as it is.