Welcome, gentle traveler, to a most unusual, magical, and mystical, place. A place wherein your most fervent photographic desires, your cravings, your deepest, darkest, secret wishes, your most intimate hungers, your profound inner longings may at long, long, last, find fulfillment (when the site's complete, which will be shortly, I hope)! A place that not only recognizes, but actually caters to that most special, intimate place within each of us. This place is known by many and varied names; on occasion, others, buffeted by the harsh winds of fate, and seeking to stem their anguish, occasionally try to deny its existance. But we all know it's there. Sometimes we know it all too well.

We may call it by many names, or none at all. It is our heart of hearts, the hidden crevasse of our minds, our souls, the secret, protected place, the place which we reveal not to the outside world, the spot which lies deeply, deeply, hidden within each of us, the place which plaintively cries out, again and again, in a most tiny, almost imperceptible, yet persistent and tenacious voice, for fulfillment. The longing will not cease; we have no choice but to sate it.

This is a secret, clandestine place, which we keep hidden from all the world outside, and which, sometimes, we seek to keep hidden even from ourselves. But in times of quiet, in times of solitude, in our own private spaces, in contemplation, when the silence is unbroken and our souls are freed to speak quietly to us, ever so gently, so softly, so... honestly. So, gentle visitor, please accept my most sincere welcome to a place conceived and designed especially for you. A place of joy, wherein you may embrace and acquire that special something for which there is no substitute or succedaneum, no alternative or replacement, and no choice but to seek. And to find that for which you have yearned. Come, browse, enjoy, and find fulfillment. The very first sections of Photographer's SupplyStation are almost ready. But many more sections are, right this very moment, being labored upon and designed especially for your interest and enjoyment. So please browse the BookStore, check out the photographic equipment, and find your favorite toys, review every photographic magazine available, and - as always - have fun.

But be sure to return again soon, so you may explore the new offerings coming shortly. Should you be of the inclination, you are invited to read the scintillating prose that is here now, as well as much to follow shortly (and will bounce around, peripateticly, throughout) -- discourses on subjects momentous and trivial -- sumptuous and silly -- meaningful and at a loss for meaning -- composed, conceived, or stolen from the void at the inclination of the muses or the moment (as the case may be). Concepts which arise gently, as of a barely discernible, but most pleasing, fragrance floating to us on an ever so gentle summer breeze -- or agonies which erupt from the nether depths of despair and anguish as violent agonizing shafts of lightning bursting unsummoned from the deepest, darkest, fathoms of our soul, demanding release and accepting no impediment whatsoever, no matter our determinations to reject its issue! Can you hear that shrill voice now? The one demanding a new strobe? Or one of the amazing Triple Background Support Systems? Or perhaps even a whole new 10 Strobe Pro Lighting Package? It's foolish to fight it. You know that. It will never stop... not until you give it what it demands - NOW! --
Hey, who deserves it more than you? Huh? :-) You've been working your ass off all year, right? Right! Well, go on, check out all the goodies at Photographer's SupplyStation right now. Give in while there's still time!

A very personal story of how I first learned to "see" Beauty....