The Hasselblad System: not clumsy and random like today's cameras, a more elegant system from a more civilized age…

-adapted from Star Wars, George Lucas

Some fine old glass.

These lenses were given to me by my father.

They were purchased in the early '80 as part of a system and used heavily for about 15 years until digital cameras made the film systems obsolete.

Hasselblad equipment of this era was designed to last a lifetime of heavy use, and these particular lenses still work wonderfully to this day despite excessive wear.

Hasselblad 80mm. f2.8

This is a normal lens for the Hasselblad 6x6cm system.

Hasselblad 50mm. f4

This is a wide angle lens.

9-7-10

vol tone.

stratocaster.

canon digital & mb.

Back yard pics: Dragonfly.

back yard pic: grasshopper on fig leaf.

Some recent video...

An old print from negative. Fort Washington, MD

bio

here's my updated bio:

Matt has been a event and portrait photographer in the DC area for more than 12 years. He graduated from Towson University with a Bachelor of Science in Photography in 1998.

Matt grew up around photography and has always been drawn to making images. "My father started a photography business in 1980 with a studio and darkroom in the basement of our house. I would watch him work and by the time I was 9 or 10 I was tagging along on assignments."

After graduating from Towson, Matt started his own photography business. "I have always been drawn to wedding photography. I love weddings because each one is a unique story...it's my job to create a pictorial narrative that communicates the wedding story for future generations. A good wedding photographer is part story teller, part visual artist, and a little part tecno-geek."

Matt is also an accomplished fine art photographer. Flowers, the human face and historic architecture have all been subjects Matt has explored. He has exhibited his photographic and multi-media work in a variety of local venues and juried shows. Matt's work has been featured on Maryland Public Television and in Japan in Photo Technic Magazine.

Matt's hobbies include painting and mixing music. "I love to work with oil paint, the smell...the texture...to mix and smear it around a canvas is a wonderful experience...mixing music has a similar appeal for a different set of senses."

Matt has been happily married to his childhood sweetheart for ten years and together they spend a lot of time chasing their two boys and a girl, ages 6, 3 and 7 months. Matt lives in Maryland on the Potomac River south of DC.