My name is Max McDaniel and I have created this blog as a place to share my photography and musings about the passions of my life: coffee, literature, music, etc.
Having graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in contemporary literature, I spent two years working at a camp in the woods outside of Yosemite National Park in California. After deciding I could no longer push the limits of my mind and body and, at the ripe old age of 24, I retired to the Pacific Northwest to launch my career in the elite coffee houses of Seattle. Fear not, I shan’t scoff at you for adding cream and sugar and will happily explain why we don’t serve a “dark drip.” I feel that the level of snobbery that is associated with the “third wave” coffee movement is an unnecessary aspect of the trade and one that only distracts from the movement’s purpose: serving really good coffee.
Aside from my coffee shop job, I fancy myself an avid amateur photographer. Although my photo site is currently in the process of redesign (for this, I beg of you patience), I have decided to participate, albeit somewhat loosely, in Project 365 where I will attempt to take and post new photographs for every day of 2011. Sometimes they will be spaced out (especially when I have other projects demanding my time and energy), but goal is to have 365 new photographs up in the interspace by Dec 31.