When the real world is captured in a photograph, the human mind assisted by the focus of the medium is a able to distill the effect of combined static elements. When we take an impression off a moment or an image we become visual alchemists, that's Mcelroy's specialty.
A Californian, the majority of his photos are taken in San Francisco, but he's no stranger to southern California. Documention of daily life, youthful hooliganary, and architecture, every photo is like a block of free verse, or a paragraph of modern philosophy.
