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Life Goals
Read more: Life GoalsHelen and I made these images in the spring of 2022. She was getting ready to leave for the summer, and I was desperate to get a shoot in before I lost her. At the time, I had seen another photographer using soccer goals in a shoot, and I thought having Helen hang in the…
Clouds in a Garage
Read more: Clouds in a GarageOne of my favorite things about photography is how absurd some ideas sound before they work. This one started because I saw my friend’s ceiling. With a little floof and lights, she had made a cloud room for her kids, and the idea stuck with me. Around the same time, I had seen a video…
Task Failed Successfully
Read more: Task Failed SuccessfullyI am not what you’d call a planner. I have always kind of winged things in life, and somehow it just works out. Whether it’s my job, my love life, or my photoshoots, I primarily rely on instinct, and the results have, amazingly, turned out pretty good. So here I am at the end of…
Italy or Indiana? You decide with Michaela Orme
Read more: Italy or Indiana? You decide with Michaela OrmeHaving just seen a variety of portraits from the San Benedetto del Tronto countryside, I was envious of what luck Italians have to be surrounded by gorgeous scenery. Shortly thereafter, on a random drive in rural Indiana, I realized just how beautiful our wheat fields were this time of year. Perhaps I had nothing to…
Fly the Friendly Skies: O’Hare Photoshoot
Read more: Fly the Friendly Skies: O’Hare PhotoshootTowards the end of winter I bought a plane ticket to nowhere to gain access to O’Hare Airport. While inside, I took the opportunity to do a photoshoot with the absolutely lovely Shei Ayala Madrid. We showed up right before security closed down for the night, with flights scheduled to leave at 6AM. Once inside,…
The Pursuit of Happiness: Sara Perez NYC
Read more: The Pursuit of Happiness: Sara Perez NYCEvery once in a while inspiration strikes and it sinks its teeth into you. The idea of a ballerina, in an immersive art exhibit, grabbed hold of my imagination and I had to make it a reality. For months now, I looked for an excuse to make my first trip to New York City and…
Thinking outside the box, inside the box.
Read more: Thinking outside the box, inside the box.I miss being a kid and perhaps using photography the old me channels the young me. With this shoot, I was trying to capture the imagination of youth that seems to dissipate with age. Or maybe I was just trying to have fun with a cardboard box and fog machine. Let me know which you…
The Future was Then
Read more: The Future was ThenI don’t know what to say. We live in a world where anything is possible and that is perfectly manifested by the location of my most recent shoot with Helen Mills. Located near Carlisle, OH is one of the few remaining Futuro houses in the world. A friend happened to be passing by, snapped a…
Studio Experimentation with Helen Mills
Read more: Studio Experimentation with Helen MillsThe more I photograph, the more I see room for improvement. I want to consider myself “good,” but how do I define that? I want shots that stop people in their tracks. I want a single image that causes someone to bring a friend over and say, “look at that!” These shots are rare, yet…
Handle with Care
Read more: Handle with CareWith winter setting in and the pandemic making a tough time of year all that more tough, Janel and I set about coming up with a unique photoshoot idea. If you follow the same hashtags I follow on Instagram, you are inundated with milk bath photography. I’ve found the idea intriguing, but not quite my…
