Topics: San Diego landscapes, suburbia, darkroom photography, proximity to beaches, LGBTQIA+ topics, self-portraiture, Uchinanchu/Okinawan diaspora.
Main profile is @shindoverse.bsky.social
San Diego, CA
This one feels more anachronistic.
Lighthouse is in the background.
This one feels more anachronistic.
Lighthouse is in the background.
I photographed a backyard hibiscus in a manner similar to the poppy photographed by Dan Forbes for Pet Shop Boys’ Release album cover. This is an untreated photo, though cropped to 1:1.
I photographed a backyard hibiscus in a manner similar to the poppy photographed by Dan Forbes for Pet Shop Boys’ Release album cover. This is an untreated photo, though cropped to 1:1.
I’ve taken the basic elements of Björk’s album cover photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino - the makeup, the sweater, hands together, and shot this photo. This is the untreated version. I’ve run it through Snapseed to achieve a grainy sepia effect.
I’ve taken the basic elements of Björk’s album cover photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino - the makeup, the sweater, hands together, and shot this photo. This is the untreated version. I’ve run it through Snapseed to achieve a grainy sepia effect.
My photo of an agave plant found in my neighborhood is an homage to the one photographed by Anton Corbijn, whom I became aware of in my teens before Depeche Mode’s commercial breakthrough in the late 1980s.
My photo of an agave plant found in my neighborhood is an homage to the one photographed by Anton Corbijn, whom I became aware of in my teens before Depeche Mode’s commercial breakthrough in the late 1980s.
Australian tea tree trunk segment shot near the bowling greens at Balboa Park.
Australian tea tree trunk segment shot near the bowling greens at Balboa Park.
Closeup of Australian tea tree trunk shot at Balboa Park.
Closeup of Australian tea tree trunk shot at Balboa Park.
Close-up of trunk of Australian Tea Tree shot at Balboa Park.
Close-up of trunk of Australian Tea Tree shot at Balboa Park.
I shot this from inside the first floor of the lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument National Park.
I shot this from inside the first floor of the lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument National Park.
This is of the hillsides near the lighthouse on the grounds of the Cabrillo National Monument. It’s a landscape macro with the anomaly of a bare patch of sandstone and the peeking out of another geological layer.
This is of the hillsides near the lighthouse on the grounds of the Cabrillo National Monument. It’s a landscape macro with the anomaly of a bare patch of sandstone and the peeking out of another geological layer.
This one is a candid shot of someone sitting on a bench at Windandsea Beach. It was an exercise in seeing a story in something I encountered now along with framing it in the composition.
This one is a candid shot of someone sitting on a bench at Windandsea Beach. It was an exercise in seeing a story in something I encountered now along with framing it in the composition.
Tourist binoculars shot from the side with clouds and the Pacific Ocean in the background. Here, I used the filtered sunlight of a partially cloudy day to help create a vintage effect in this color photo.
Tourist binoculars shot from the side with clouds and the Pacific Ocean in the background. Here, I used the filtered sunlight of a partially cloudy day to help create a vintage effect in this color photo.
Tourist binoculars shot at Cabrillo National Monument with San Diego Bay in the background, rendered in BW.
Tourist binoculars shot at Cabrillo National Monument with San Diego Bay in the background, rendered in BW.
Shot at Cabrillo National Monument with the lighthouse on the far background with the tourist binoculars in the foreground.
Shot at Cabrillo National Monument with the lighthouse on the far background with the tourist binoculars in the foreground.
Film and darkroom print treated with tea.
This photo of a house near Belmont Park was botched in development, one of several at the time. I toned it with tea, giving it an antique and otherworldly quality.
Film and darkroom print treated with tea.
This photo of a house near Belmont Park was botched in development, one of several at the time. I toned it with tea, giving it an antique and otherworldly quality.
I lit the night-blooming cereus flower from the side and shot it “in profile,” giving it an otherworldly glow.
I made use of a DIY light source with an IKEA crookneck lamp and a piece of printer paper wrapped around the bulb.
I lit the night-blooming cereus flower from the side and shot it “in profile,” giving it an otherworldly glow.
I made use of a DIY light source with an IKEA crookneck lamp and a piece of printer paper wrapped around the bulb.
A very Pandemic kind of photo of looking more closely at things in the back yard.
A very Pandemic kind of photo of looking more closely at things in the back yard.
Taken during golden hour and faking the sunlight at the same time with a directed flash.
Taken during golden hour and faking the sunlight at the same time with a directed flash.
A part of San Diego suburbia.
A part of San Diego suburbia.
Effect achieved in Photoshop by destructively smudging image in a way that Lucas Samaras applied destructive techniques to his Polaroids.
Effect achieved in Photoshop by destructively smudging image in a way that Lucas Samaras applied destructive techniques to his Polaroids.
This is the cover photo in the profile.
This is the cover photo in the profile.