about
Sometime in Junior High, I found and started playing with the Yashica my Dad had with him in Vietnam. Warm fuzzy feelings for photography started then. Star Wars and Ninja flicks prompted me to learn for myself that making movies could be as fun as watching them. Studying film at university in Montana made me wonder why I was going to university in Montana. I don't care how old I am, the Winnie the Pooh books are my favorite. Living in Japan taught me the value of being able to be an anonymous face in a crowd. Living Stateside taught me the value of being an outsider in Japan. I am fairly unprepared for the zombie apocalypse
faq
Why the number 47?
There was a period of about six months in my life when 47 was stalking me everywhere! It was crazy, every time I looked at the clock, 47. Check the odometer, it ended in 47. Looked out the window and saw my brother in his soccer jersey...which happened to be number 47.
It really felt to be beyond what you would expect the normal odds of seeing any given number would be. I even tried to notice other numbers, acknowledging that perhaps it was just all in my head, but 47 kept right on popping up left, right and center.
Then all of a sudden it stopped. There didn't seem to be any catalyst, I just noticed that it wasn't there all the time. I don't know that it meant anything or if it even existed in the first place. But there was something neat about the atmosphere when I was seeing that number everywhere. It felt like something important might happen at any moment and then it's mysterious meaning would suddenly be made clear.
I suppose that's the feeling I'm chasing whenever I compose a photo or sit down to edit a video. Knowing that I'm starting with something "out there" and trying to sift out some secret it guards by altering it's context through myself, my lens and my computer.
Also, if I just called my site scottpiekarczyk.com, I'd probably never get any visitors because that is not an easy name to remember, much less spell right. ;)
Do you sell prints of your photos?
Yep! I eventually plan to set up a shopping cart here on the site, but in the meantime, just shoot me an email and we'll get it sorted out.
Are you available for commission projects?
You bet. What did you have in mind?
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photo: Mary Christianson
