Photography Blog

August 30, 2022

This August, I was invited back to Summit Learning Charter to create another round of headshots for their entire staff. They’ve expanded , so this photo shoot was even bigger than the last time. I also had to match the existing…

August 15, 2022

Dave Cesana is a life coach from Portland, OR, and he recently contacted me because he needed both a custom website and personal-branding photography for his business. In the past, I would have been able to just take care of the photography part, but…

March 1, 2022

Just about everything has gone digital, but thankfully, greeting cards are still going strong. I mean, could you be any more rude than send someone you love an E-card? Nope. You might as well spit in their face. Anyways, In the last couple years, I…

February 11, 2022

For as much time as I spent inside my home in 2020, I tried to balance that out by spending some serious time on the road in 2021. Last year, I took two major road trips, traveling through 14 states and racking up over six thousand miles behind the…

September 19, 2021

This summer I’ve been working on my portfolio a lot, trying to push my work in a new direction. I’ve been coming up with shoot themes that are specifically designed to get me out of my comfort-zone. It’s just too easy to just go with what you know…

September 17, 2021

I recently created product photography for the Fall 2021 candle collection by Alchemy Candles. This was my third round of product photography for them, and again, I matched the look from previous shoots as closely as possible. 3 out of 8 photos are…

August 31, 2021

It is morning, and the forest is peaceful. The birds are singing and hopping from branch to branch as the sun finds its way through the canopy of leaves. With this serene feeling inside, she walks deeper and deeper into the woods. The allure of the…

August 15, 2021

I recently collaborated with a model named Albrey at Mt. Tabor Park in Portland. We incorporated the concepts of lucid dreaming, connecting with a location’s collective memory, and dissolving into the environment into these visuals. Many of these…

August 6, 2021

“Imagine that you are trying to stop a strip mine by citing the fuel use of the equipment and the lost carbon sink of the forest that needs to be cleared, and the mining company says, "OK, we're going to do this in the most green way possible; we…

July 17, 2021

Lately while shooting portraits I’ve been trying to come up with little challenges because it’s too easy to shoot the same way and go with what’s comfortable. Approaching photography (or anything) with a specific set of limitations/parameters is…