Jarrett Gorin - 25 May 2007

I am 35 years old and I live in Santa Barbara, California with my wife Nichol and our boys Spencer and Tristan. I am a real estate developer, and I have been working in urban land use planning and real estate development in one capacity or another since 1992. One of the most critical parts of my job is to develop and deliver presentations to Planning Commissions, City Councils, and community groups. I usually went out to get the photographs we needed for presentations myself, and after a while, I realized that I actually enjoyed photography itself. So I took some adult education classes offered by Santa Barbara City College, and started to read books about photographic techniques in order to improve my skills.

I first started to make "artistic" images in 2003. Then, in late 2005, another Santa Barbara photographer told me what a photoblog was, and helped me to set one up. My photoblog was "launched" in October of 2005, and except for a few short breaks, I have continued to post new material consistently. My primary goals for setting up a photoblog were to motivate me to go out and make more images, and to be able to share them with people. It has been a great experience and allowed me to develop a worldwide "audience" for my work. This has also resulted in my meeting a number of excellent photographers who I now consider friends. I have also had the pleasure of meeting several of these photographers in person. This year, I also began to publicly exhibit prints of my work. It has been a great experience, and I look forward to doing a lot more of this.

All of my images to date have been made using Nikon digital SLR cameras. However, I prefer to make the images in-camera, instead of doing any extensive post processing to generate my final work. I am really not very good at Photoshop.

My work can be seen at - http://www.gorin-images.com