Data Shadows
My protagonist, Nick Bower, learned the hard way that not every image tells the full story. Some images are framed to guide the eye. Some are cropped to remove inconvenient truths. And others—far more dangerous—are engineered to appear complete while hiding something essential just outside the frame. That idea became one of the core pillars […]
The Power of Perspective
In photography, the f-stop determines how much light enters the lens—but more importantly, it controls depth of field. It decides what stays sharp and what fades into blur. A wide aperture isolates a subject. A narrow one reveals the entire scene. That simple mechanic became a metaphor I couldn’t ignore while writing fStop. Perspective is […]
What Inspired ‘f/Stop’
Every story begins with a moment—something small, almost unremarkable, that lingers longer than it should. For fStop, that moment didn’t come from a single event. It came from a convergence of experiences—years spent working in technology, followed by time behind a camera, learning to see the world differently. In the wireless industry, I spent decades […]