People, for a change.

        As you probably noticed, I have done a great deal of landscape and nature photography.  Certainly, when I started that was almost all I shot.  However, it's based on what's available for me to photograph.  When I traveled through Iceland for four days in September 2000, I didn't meet very many people, so I shot landscapes.  When I went to Mexico in August 2000, the people around me were my primary subject because it was my job to document the trip.  When I visited Washington, DC in August 2001, the architecture got most of my attention.

        As a self-schooled photographer, I lack the technical knowledge (and the interest, quite frankly) to do studio portraits: flash, reflectors, fake backgrounds, etc.  I much prefer to shoot what some folks refer to as environmental portraits: unposed, available light, as candid as possible.  Here are some of my favorites.

        The photographs on this page were taken of family and friends.  Unlike the rest of the photographs on my website, they are not for sale.

        Update: Can't believe I have taken this long to put up more photos of my beautiful wife, Kelly.  Thankfully, she hasn't left me for it.  Here are a number of photos, and I will certainly add more over time.

 
Kelly and my dad,
Jim Deichert
  
   
Self-portrait at my
desk in Kuwait
Random Germans
    
Lori and Steve Fuller
My friends Angie and Bailey 
Brown in Marostica
Trey Hockman
My nephew, Michael Riley Lawson
My sister, Victoria Lawson
Paul Valembois, good friend and fellow photographer.
Steve Keck, one of my best friends practically since birth.
Bill Powell, another good friend and fellow photographer.
Navajo fire fighter
 Me, enjoying a beer and a fire with Keith Jernigan, another lifelong best friend.
Just me.
 Me (again?!) in Aravaipa Canyon.
Eric Stafford shows off his detachable head.
Mike, Eileen, and Aaron by the fire.*
L-R: Howard, Aaron, Eileen, Mike, Amy, Eric, and me.*

 
 

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These photographs © 1998 - 2006 Christian L. Deichert. All rights reserved.

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* Yes, the people in these last two photographs are not very sharp.  You try taking a 6-second exposure of drunks and we'll see how sharp YOUR photos are, smarty.