Photography Blog

October 3, 2019

On September 20th, 2019, over 4 million people in 150 countries filled the streets to protest global inaction on climate change. Students all over the world have been striking on Fridays over the last year in a movement known as Fridays for Future…

August 15, 2019

Retouching can make or break a professional headshot. It can make you look like your best self after a good night’s sleep. It can also make you look so “perfect” that it looks unnatural and just off. Have you ever seen a headshot of a co-worker that…

July 30, 2019

What if it were winter and spring at the same time? What would it look like if barren tree branches and bleak January skies were paired with the rejuvenating colors of April flowers and sunshine? That’s what I tried to create with a double exposure…

June 18, 2019

I recently created some promotional photos for the launch of a brand new Lensbaby product called the Omni Creative Filter System. This product works with your existing lenses and creates a huge variety of effects that range from subtle haziness to…

June 5, 2019

There’s that umbrella again. This is from my other portrait session during the 2019 PDX Squared Photography Contest with a model named Annika. We collaborated on some portraits a number of months ago, so it was really cool to work together again. It…

May 31, 2019

I recently participated in a photography contest called PDX Squared in Portland, Oregon. 100 photographers were assigned to a random location in town and had 24 hours to shoot, edit, and submit their entries. There were a number of categories in the…

April 19, 2019

I recently finished a product photography assignment for Wild Chick Organics, a brand new skin care company in Portland, Oregon. Kate Egge, the founder of the company, is launching three products (an organic face cream, an organic salve, and an…

March 8, 2019

Here’s some new work from a portrait photography session I did at my house with a Portland model named Tori. She has a very active modeling career in the Portland area and beyond, and she was really great to work with. For this shoot I thought, how…

February 13, 2019

Here’s another recent shoot I did with a model named Alexandra. We met in industrial S.E. Portland, which is a location I keep returning to for portrait shoots. However, this part of town is changing fast. All the grungy industrial building facades…

February 7, 2019

Hello! It’s been a while… Here’s some new work from a portrait shoot I did in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon with a model named Aubrey. I’ve been doing quite a few sessions lately with local models, so I thought it would be fun to try…