About
fiftyfootshadows.net is a personal project hosted by myself, John Carey. My previous project, twistedsun.net, had grown through many versions and ideas through about eight years of time and I decided to retire the name and move forward with my online presence by creating 50ft. Twistedsun.net was popular because of all of the free desktop images I made available and I am happy to say that they will still be available there in its archived state. You will also start to find new desktops here as time goes on just the same as before, just in a new home.
Why Fifty Foot Shadows? I love the light of a sunset, especially the last moments of it and the grey that dusk brings just after the sun sets so I thought of this name on a trip to Utah I made because of the seemingly never ending shadows cast across the desert floor as the sun set. Fifty seemed as good of a number as any. You will also find random stories of travel and life, some more of my photographs outside of the desktops, and music suggestions because I love music as much as I love photography and sharing it something I love to do.
For those interested in such things I am 26 years old and currently living in North Carolina. I fancy myself a photographer who will most likely never stop learning about it which I think is wonderful. I am also a live audio engineer for a local production company which is work that I love. I am also part of an electronic music project called a drop in silence which I also love. If you didn’t notice a theme brewing here, I do all of this for the love of it, for the love of life and all the beautiful things within it, light, sound, feeling, and everything all at once.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the blog!
all the best,
-john
Also, for those of you who are curious what I am shooting with these days, a Canon 5d with a canon 50mm f/1.2L and 24mm f/1.4L. I also recently found a Canonet QL17 rangefinder to shoot film with and hopefully I will dive into medium format soon…