My name is Matthew Watson.

I love music, art, and all living things.

I come in peace.

(now, surrender)
Every day is a lesson, and I've been designing for over 1,825 days (5 years).

Doing photography for nearly the same number of days.

Writing, drawing, and painting forEVER.
me and Nunners

These apps:

  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom (thanks, Daniel!)
  • Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash
  • Rbrowser FTP - Mac (link)
  • Neat Image photo denoiser plugin (link)

These tools:

  • Lots of custom brushes with my...
  • Wacom tablet
  • REAL paint brushes
  • Pencils
  • Charcoal
  • My two hands (left, mainly)
  • Scanner
  • 20" iMac boot camp-ing XP

This photo gear:

  • Nikon D70 DSLR body
  • Nikon N65 SLR film body
  • Sigma 70mm telephoto macro (sharp!) for portrait and product work
  • Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto zoom for portrait and misc.
  • 28-70mm default for wider angle and closer quarters

I'm very proficient with CSS and XHTML, and know to use a bit of everything webby (Javascripting, AJAX, DHTML, PHP, Wordpress, Joomla, templating etc.)

All images and design elements copyright Matt Watson of Shadowhillmedia.com. :)