About

I’ve been shooting seriously now for a little under 3 years.  Relative to my peers, I’m best at low light candid photography, and so I do very well at photographing night life at events and clubs.  I most often shoot RAW with a Nikon D700, and a handful of fast primes.

In real life I am an ex-mathematician.  While earning my PhD at UCLA I learned this important fact about myself & mathematics:  I don’t want to spend my life doing it; it is not my passion.

Alexander Graham Bell said “when one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”  I stared at my closed door – the mismatch of math talent with a lack of passion – for a short while, before life opened two doors for me.  I discovered two unexplored passions – a passion for photography and a passion for  community organizing. Since then I have helped build LA’s burgeoning bike scene and bike activism community.

Here’s some other places you can see my work – photographic and not:

• Alexbcthompson’s Flickr stream – several thousand photos you won’t see here!
• Westside Bikeside – home to my activist work.
• Bikerowave.org – organization I founded and am Treasurer of.
• Westsidazz Twitter – half baked thoughts and failed wit attempts.

Alex T at the end of one good party. Photo by Molly K Spock.