My name is Marc Faulkner and I am a hobbyist photographer based out of the NE Oklahoma area. I was born and raised in the Tulsa area and quickly found myself in San Diego, CA after I joined the U.S. Navy. After fulfilling my enlistment with the Navy, I remained in San Diego and spent most of my time off surfing Sunset Cliffs and mountain biking the inland mountains of San Diego and Orange counties. I ventured up to Dana Point, CA for a couple years then returned to San Diego where I had more friends and less L.A. After living in Southern California, I wound up in Tucson, AZ where I lived for several years and eventually made my way back home to the Tulsa area where I have settled in for the long-term, or at least until I retire. It was here where I found a love for photography, especially photographing wild landscapes and stormy weather. And if I’m lucky, I get to capture both in one shot.

My goal in photography is to capture the order within the chaos of our wonderful world. Hence the name Ordaos. As I became more intimate with photography, I began to understand the importance of contrast. A plain white wall seems so unappealing and boring until you add a black square somewhere on the wall and you now have something just a little bit more interesting…contrast. And this idea of contrast extends far outside of photography. It is around us everywhere. Think of the day and the night. The low tide and the high tide. The hot and the cold. The up and the down. The sad and the happy. The loud and the silent. The list goes on and on. The Daoist believe each of these contrasting aspects of life need each other, which they visually explain with the Yin and the Yang. While I am not a practicing Daoist, I am beginning to buy what they are selling.

I also strive to capture a view of the world as if we were never here, or at least aren’t currently here. This can be quite challenging as some of our most beautiful places and wildest weather regions have obvious signs of our presence that are unavoidable, such as roads and power poles. In some cases, I make the best of what is in front of me and just accept our presence in my shot. In other cases, I use editing software to remove these obstructions. But quite often, there are locations I visit that look as if we were never there and that is where I am drawn to shoot the most.

In my photography, I use both a Canon R5 for the ground-level viewpoints and a Mavic 2 Pro drone for those higher viewpoints. I also maintain a FAA Part 107 Drone Pilot License.

I want to thank you for taking the time to visit my virtual world. At the moment, none of my photos are for sale and I am not for hire, but whose to say what could happen in the future.