A similar conversation kept taking place too often.

"Where can I see your work, shouldn't you have a website?" "Well, I sell images online so I don't really need a site of my own..." And that leads into a whole conversation about stock photography. Finally someone asked me the same question one time too many and I just snapped and said "fine, I'm on it".

From the start I knew didn't want a website with just a dozen of my best shots, I wanted to show all even remotely worth showing including the good, the bad, the ugly ones, the outtakes, behind the scenes stuff. I wanted to show that this is not as easy as it looks, sometimes you need to take a thousand shots to come up with one slightly above average looking one. I wanted to share more than the end product and definitely more than the so-called top products. Oh and the person who has seen my site and only comments that I must have a really good camera gets punched in the freaking face.

One of the first things was to figure out what to call my site, knowing I wanted something catchy, easy to remember and it just had to be .com. Then I thought of the fact that most of my high-speed shots take place in a very dimly lit, if not completely dark room where flashes do all the lighting work. A shot in the dark. And that in a way applies to still-life and editorial imagery as well, because sometimes it's better to start with very little light and light sources and keep adding them till you get exactly what you came for. When someone remarked Darkened Studio sounded sexy, I knew I had the name nailed.

To be continued in about.