Don’t Forget to Breathe I try to give very little direction during my shoots. I like to let the people I work with live within a real environment. To capture what they are feeling and experiencing at that very moment. I’ve come to realize that what I do isn’t something that can always be directed…
That Post I Keep Talking About For the past 3 months (or possibly longer; I’ve honestly lost track of time), I have been writing and re-writing this blog post easily a million times now. The first couple thousand drafts read like a pity party and a bunch of really lame as excuses. A couple people…
seen things differently… “The camera is a liar. It shows everything, it shows nothing. It reveals only what we want. Often what we see is seen only from a window; moving past then gone. One window. My window. If you’d been here, chances are you would have seen things differently.” -Anthony Bourdain I can’t…
Catching up… It has been a couple weeks since my last blog post. The good news is that I have a couple of new shoots that I am finishing up getting ready to publish here soon (including a set from the image above with Lesley) and a couple more on the calendar for the coming…
April has been busy! At the beginning of April, I was invited to be a content creator for a site called Buttrcup. Buttrcup is owned by the same group of amazing people over at Findrow. Please be aware before clicking on the links. Buttrcup is NSFW; and Findrow apps contain a little more graphic work. …
Everything you did has already been done. The above image is two pages from Austin Kleon’s book, Steal Like An Artist. If you haven’t read this yet, definitely go grab a copy quick. Now that I have given credit where credit is due, on to my real point (hopefully). I have seen too many posts…
Slow Down For those that know me, the phrase “Slow Down” has so much meaning to me. I tattooed it on my knuckles less than 12 hours before I got the phone call that grandmother had passed away. The idea came to me as I drove home from a Grieves show, blasting Light Speed as…
Reality. For a moment… Sometimes my oldest allows me to take her photos. It has been years since she has actually “let” me photograph her in any other way than a sneaky and blurry candid. This is from November of 2014. 4 more months and she turns 11. Blown away daily by how amazing of…
19 Years and Half the World Away This is my friend, Duncan Ewington. I met him 21 years ago when he was a foreign exchange student from Tasmania that ended up staying with our friend Jason. This past weekend was the first time I have seen him in 19 years. The minute I heard he…
Back to the Basics This is the first frame I shot from an impromptu and short shoot I had with Cassandra on Sunday. She had an MUA and photographer cancel on her last minute and was still in shooting mode. We met up and quickly threw together a simple concept and literally drove 2 blocks…