Welcome to lonnygomes.com. If you do a google search on my name, the only hits that return are for my father and I (I'm a junior). That obviously MUST mean that I am one out of the only two Lonny Gomes' that exist amidst the 6 billion inhabitants of earth!

This site is not so much a blog, but more of a "digital scrapbook" of my random thoughts and ideas (and yeah, you may think that pretty much defines what a blog, but to quote Biggie ... "you're dead wrong"). Anyways, there are a lot of things that I find interesting and inspiring in this world we live in. This site is my feeble attempt to give back to what has inspired me and hopefully inspire others in the process.

I haven't had a chance to add much to this site for the past few months. A lot has been going on, PLUS I've been trying to learn another language. I have more photos, muisc and writing to upload and should be adding other features to the site soon.

I just got back from my first experience with backpacking. We hiked on the western Pennsylvania portion of the Appalachian Trail for a week. Despite it's weight, I took my Nikon F3 along to document the journey. Unfortunately, the first time I've incorrectly loaded flim into my camera happened to be on this trip so I didn't get many pictures at all. In fact, out of the pictures I took, there was only one that I really liked. I uploaded it to my gallery, let me know what you think.

Today was the opening of the Camera Clique Exhibition. Coming as a total surprise to me, I won best in show. There was a lot of amazing and inspiring work at the show and it was an honor to receive the award (especially since if it were up to me, I wouldn't have thought my shot was best in show).

One of my photos was accepted to be displayed in exhibition in the Frederick Camera Clique 20th Anniversary Regional Juried Exhibition. The exhibition goes until September 6th and is located at the Mary Condon Hodgson Gallery (on the campus of Frederick Community College).

I added a few new 35mm pictures to the gallery. I recently got a new "new camera" -- a Nikon F3 -- and am slowly getting used to it. I'm currently working on a photo series dealing with the idea of borders/boundaries so stay tuned.

Uploaded a new concept mix entitled Be Free. It's a MLK tribute of sorts that I've been wanting to do since January. This site is *STILL* under construction.
Working on improvements though