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  • Taken on Friday, February 23, 2024

Hello. My name is Harper Reed.

I started carrying a camera full time in 2000, when I bought my first digital camera. It was awesome. I was a terrible photographer. Then in 2002 or so, I got a smaller point and shoot and started taking photos of my friends and all of our hijinx. Again, it was awesome. I built my first mobile photo blog around 2003. I was using these nokia phones and would take a photo and email it to a specific email address and it would post the photo automatically. It worked, was interesting to post photos directly from the phone and was awesome.

Then Flickr came out. It came packed with a lot of features that I had built into my own photo site - but also added friends! Photography is much more fun with friends. I really loved Flickr and used the hell out of it. Then the iPhone came out.

From 2007 to 2015, I took a lot of photos, but I was missing something. I couldn’t figure out what it was.

I started traveling a LOT in 2013. I started taking a lot of photos of friends and my experiences. It was amazing, but I wasn’t satisfied with the photo quality of the phones.

In late 2015, I decided I wanted to be more deliberate about taking photos and photography. I purchased a couple of cameras and promised myself that I would carry one every day. It seemed to have worked. Having carried a camera with me for 3+ years now, it has become a habit (and a fun and nice one). As a result, I have taken a lot more photos and have become much more thoughtful about photography.

This isn’t a surprising outcome.

This site is a small collection of my favorite photos. I hope you like it.

My kit

I am primarily shooting the following :

Current Cameras (in order of use)

  • Leica M11
  • Leica Monochrom (og)
  • Olympus Mu2
  • Contax T3
  • Olympus Pen EE-3
  • Minolta CLE

I know it is ridiculous, but here we are.

Retired Cameras

  • Leica Q
  • Leica 262
  • Hasselblad CFV II 50C / 907x

This site

This site is generated primarily by scraping Google Photos, assembling the photos into a nice directory structure and then using hugo to make it a website.

For the most part this is nice, but I think it could be a lot better.

You can find the source for the site on github.

About Harper Reed

I am a computer operator who likes to make things. Also pranks.

You can learn more about me at my website harperreed.com.

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Feel free to reach out via Twitter or send me an email @ harper@modest.com