Featured Shot 01
Da Nang Afterglow
The river holds the last color after the buildings go quiet.
July 25, 2022
Da Nang, Vietnam
A city can feel most honest in the minute before the lights decide what they want to be.
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Frames That Keep The Room Quiet
A portfolio rebuilt around real photographs from Vietnam, Bali, and Ho Chi Minh City film scans: full-bleed images, precise captions, dates, and the stray thoughts that make a frame stay with you.
Macro, field encounters, film scans, city dusk, and one thin moon.
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Narrative first, light second, navigation invisible, emotion last. The page moves like a short contact sheet becoming a gallery wall.
Featured Shot 02
Watchful Jumper
A small face appears from the soft blur like it has always been there.
October 21, 2024
Vietnam
Macro work is a lesson in lowering your voice. The subject arrives only when the room stops rushing.
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Featured Shot 03
Bali Mother And Child
Green shade, a guarded look, and a child folded into the frame.
July 26, 2023
Bali, Indonesia
Some photographs ask you to keep distance. The tenderness is there because the frame does not crowd it.
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Featured Shot 04
Wing And Droplet
A dark bead of water sits on a termite wing like punctuation.
April 26, 2025
Da Nang City, Vietnam
The closer the lens gets, the more a fragile termite wing starts to read like weather.
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Featured Shot 05
Ho Chi Minh Gate Light
A gate, a flare, and the heat of afternoon caught on film.
Film scan, May 2, 2017
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Film is generous with accidents. It turns glare into memory and lets imperfect light keep its nerve.
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Featured Shot 06
Thin Moon
A crescent hangs in the black with almost nothing to prove.
August 1, 2022
Vietnam
Negative space is not empty. It is the part of the photograph that keeps the subject from shouting.
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Featured Shot 07
Boardwalk Dog
A small interruption on a bright path.
April 9, 2023
Vietnam
The best street encounters do not ask to become stories. They just cross the frame and leave a grin behind.
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Latest From The Picks
A horizontal scan of the remaining photographs, tuned for browsing like a contact sheet but with enough air for each frame to breathe.
Watchful Jumper
October 21, 2024
Bali Mother And Child
July 26, 2023
Wing And Droplet
April 26, 2025
Ho Chi Minh Gate Light
Film scan, May 2, 2017
Thin Moon
August 1, 2022
Boardwalk Dog
April 9, 2023
Dew Underworld
November 3, 2024
Little Witness
October 21, 2024
Golden Antennae
April 26, 2025
Bali Orange Rambutan
July 27, 2023
Bali Stone Rest
July 30, 2023
Canopy Ghost
April 10, 2022
Branch Crossing
April 10, 2022
Zebra Crossing Garden
Film scan, April 18, 2017
Guitar Room
Film scan, June 14, 2018
Sleeping Cat
Film scan, May 2, 2017
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