Why did you start the photoblog? How long has it been going? How often do you post?
I started my photoblog as a place to post photos from my travels to share with my family and friends. I was researching a trip and ran across some other people who had done the same thing… from there a photoblog was born! I update as I get material I think is worthy to post. I used to update daily, but find it’s hard to keep quality coming 365 days of the year.

Where do you see your photoblog in the next year? Two years? Five years?
I do not see many changes to my photoblog in the future. I am quite happy with it now and plan to continue until the medium moves to another platform. I have no plans to make photography my career, but there may come a day that I want to sell some of my work. If that day comes, I might put together a site that would be more portfolio based rather than blog.

What’s your favorite photograph from your archives? What makes that shot special?
Wow, it is so hard to choose just one! But, if I have to, I will say text messages simply because of the memories and emotions it brings back from the time I took the shot. I was at the NCAA Final Four in 2008 and my team, the Kansas Jayhawks, had just beat the pants off of the University of North Carolina (and former coach). I was horse from screaming and shaking from the excitement and the phone was buzzing non stop with messages from all of my friends. This photo is the perfect representation of who I am, not as a photographer so much, but as a person — lover of KU basketball, technology, friends and photography.

Who are some photographers/photobloggers/flickrers you follow?
All of my fellow Chicago Photobloggers, of course!
Elusive Photography
Lucie Debelkova
Yosigo
Ingrid
Giancarlo Malandra
200iso
Kathleen Connally
and loads more

Do you have any future projects planned? A book, a calendar? Do you plan to make photography your profession someday?
I have lots of projects planned, will I actually do them… ?? I started making books of my photography, but only for personal use. I thought about books of my iPhone work, but need to narrow the subject matter before that would really be successful. As I said before, I have no plans to make photography a full time gig. For me, I feel like once you go from hobby to profession, all of the fun gets sucked right out.

Has the iPhone changed anything about your photography?
I am not even sure how to describe what the iPhone has done to me and my photography. It hasn’t changed the way I see things, it hasn’t changed my desire to take photos with other cameras, but … it has provided me with the ability to take a photo at a moments notice. I’ve read that the best camera is the one you have with you, and for me that’s my iPhone. I literally feel like I’m missing a piece of myself if it’s not with me. Some of my all time favorite photos were taken with my iPhone.

I feel a bit like the iPhone is the polaroid of today. While it doesn’t give me the ability to print a picture immediately, it does give me the ability to share it via the various sources of social media. I can be standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and have a cool photo documenting that on the internet for my friends and family to see in less than a minute. How could you not love that?

I have taken well over 4000 photos on my iPhone and am so impressed with the outcome. And while it takes great photos, I prefer to use an app for processing. There is something about not knowing exactly how it will come out that intrigues me. I started with shakeitphoto then hipstamatic and now crossprocess. And my newest obsession is the iTimeLapse app. I held the iPhone for 577 shots (about 30 minutes) of a drive through Gary, Indiana into downtown Chicago at sunset and love the fun little movie that came together. (http://vimeo.com/10308650) I see so much potential out of this app!

Any favorite iPhone photo apps?
shakeitphoto
hipstamatic
crossprocess
itimelapse
lo-mob
ps mobile
tiltshiftgen
camera bag
toy camera
photobooth+

I’ve noticed that you rarely post iPhone photos to your photoblog, opting instead to put them just on flickr or your posterous site. Is there a reason for that?
When I first got the iPhone the camera was just OK, but I was taking some fun pics and thought posting them on my posterous site would be good because it auto updates to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and such. The iPhone was just a way for me to post photos of the goofy things that happen in my life to share with my family and friends. I never thought of it as a serious means for photography.

As I began to purchase apps, I started using the iPhone in a more artistic way. And since the apps are slightly unpredictable it has become a little photo challenge right in the palm of my hand. It’s fun and about as low tech as it gets. Point. Shoot.

With the upgrade to the 3GS and it’s 3MP camera, the quality was so much better — touch focus, metering and apps galore! It was at that time I started to think of my iPhone as a “real” camera. A camera that is not just about documentation, but about creating a great photo. I sometimes surprise myself with the outcome on the iPhone. If I can look at the image and say, damn that’s a good one — that’s the one that will make the photoblog.

iPhone 4.0 is just around the corner and I cannot wait to see how the 5MP camera with LED flash treats me!