Photography Blog

March 3, 2021

As the morning sun illuminates the silent lake, I see my strange reflection in between the slow surface ripples. I am warm, and the water is cold. I walk a little closer. My feet leave the bank and begin to feel a sharp reminder of who is in charge…

February 27, 2021

When I close my eyes at night, I hear the same song. It’s in a minor key, and the melody is repetitive but pleasant. There’s a soft voice in the distance that somehow synchronizes with the song. I start to walk towards the voice. It’s pitch-black all…

February 21, 2021

I sit by myself in a cold yet comforting home. It’s the place I’ve known for longer than I can remember. The walls are a different color behind the picture frames. There’s a window that’s also a mirror. I spend many hours a day looking through this…

January 30, 2021

I’ve been mildly obsessed with the movie Annihilation since I first saw it a couple of years ago. The grand finale scene with the alien-like avatar mirroring Natalie Portman’s every move was one of the most intense moments I’ve experienced watching a…

November 5, 2020

Although many people own the tools needed to take quality photos, acquiring the skills to take consistent photos remains a trade that takes a long time to learn. Early this fall, I photographed more colorful and unique handcrafted candles for the…

November 2, 2020

This year I experimented with a film technique called redscale. While it’s possible to purchase prefab redscale film, it’s much cheaper to do it yourself. All you do is load film in your camera backwards so you end up shooting through all the orange…

June 9, 2020

The blatant murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020 has triggered mass protests across the entire country during the Coronavirus pandemic. These are a handful of photos I took from a protest I attended on June 5, 2020…

May 18, 2020

I did some product photography last month for Alchemy Candles, of Molalla, Oregon. This was a great photography job to have during quarantine because I was able to create all the photos from my home studio. It was also really enjoyable to photograph…

May 8, 2020

Here’s another recent FaceTime photo shoot with a model named Tatiana. We spent a couple hours creating photos in and around her home on a sunny spring day while in quarantine. I got a wide variety of images during this session and really enjoyed the…

May 1, 2020

Here’s some new work from my recent FaceTime photo shoot with my friend Madeline. In the last year, we’ve been collaborating on shoots every few months, so it was nice that quarantine didn’t stop us this time around. This was also my second shoot…