Goodnickels.

It's a made-up name. I don't remember when it came up. For some reason, whatever conversation we were having required I invent a quasi-serious old-money surname. Goodnickels. It's kind of perfect.

It stuck. We actually considered changing our legal last names to it when we got married, but the state of California makes that a bit of a pain in the ass. Oh well.

Independently, both of us spent a large portion of our youth interested in photography. We both became distracted during college, and when we met, it was a footnote in our things-I-have-interest-in chapters. I annoyed Mel into picking it back up a number of times, but it wasn't until we planned our wedding that our interest in taking pictures was really renewed.

We hired an amazing photographer for our wedding: Bil Zelman. He became a friend and inspiration, and his photos reminded us quickly of how exciting making images can be.

It's been an obsession for the last year or so, and this website is the most recent realization of that. In this little scribble-box, we plan to document our picture making. I imagine we'll post excitedly about new captures and lament about lessons learned the hard way in approximately equal amounts.

I hope you find something enjoyable here.

Thanks,

Mr. and Mrs. Goodnickels