About Nearn

My name Matthew but some people know me as nearn or burn and I reside in Salt Lake City. Currently I am going to school at the Salt Lake Community College for a degree in computer science. I am also the owner and content provider of this photoblog. I started to take pictures when I was in highschool with a olympus OM-1 35mm SLR for a photography class and later on in college I took an intro to photography class. That is about the extent og my formal education in photography. My father and grandfather were both amateur photographers and I was lucky that my father kept all of there equipment and passed it down to me. Recently I decided to pick up the family tradition and I bought my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel 450D. The first day I had that camera I fell in love with photography all over again.

My Equipment:

  • Canon 450D
  • 50mm f/1.8 II
  • 18-55mm kitlens
  • 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
  • 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
  • 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
  • Lensbabie 2.0
  • 430EX flash
  • Olympus OM-1
  • 55mm fixed lens
  • 55-300mm zoom lens
  • 24mm fixed wide angle
  • Leica IIIf
  • 50mm fixed
  • Holga medium format
  • MacBook 2.2 core duo with 4gig of ram
  • Aperture2
  • Elinchrom Skyport Universal Trigger Set