Monthly Archives: December 2010

The photo above is one of my typical “run’ography” shots. As I shot this with my P&S there is not much technical camera setting to explain, just that it was shot in automatic (P) mode. Continue reading →

In the 200,000+ photos I take a year, I will possibly never take as perfectly imperfect a portrait as this one. At the biggest size you can see that the maid-of-honor, in the background behind the couple, is spitting her beer into her plastic cup. Continue reading →

I can still recall the initial moment that inspired me to pursue photography on a more serious, professional level. My friend, Julie Melton, had taken the most exquisite pictures of Tori Amos and PJ Harvey at the music portion of SXSW in 2009 and, upon gazing at those images repeatedly, I had only one recurring thought; “I would like to possess the ability to create something of this caliber for music fans such as myself to enjoy.” Continue reading →

This image was taken in NY in late 2008 with a Leica M6 film camera. I had been doing digital photography seriously for just over a year when I decided to try film for no other purpose but to stretch my boundaries. Continue reading →

I somehow talked my way into working as an assistant during the Beijing Olympics for a magazine photographer. A lot of those three weeks involved captioning images, prepping equipment, making sure batteries were charged and at the ready, and of course, lugging a lot of heavy gear all over the greater Beijing area. However, I was also lucky enough to get to shoot a lot of photos in my spare time. Continue reading →

I wouldn’t say my photo taking has much of a process. I’m constantly on the hunt for new and adventurous situations, and I have a tendency to observe interesting details in what may seem mundane to others. Once I find the situation, I just document it. Continue reading →

Disclaimer: Refs. Umps. Blues. Call them what you will, they get a pretty raw deal. They go out there and despite how blatant a foul is, half the people aren’t going to like their call. It’s a thankless job and I feel kinda sorry for them. That being said: Continue reading →

So I couldn’t really decide on a single image so I thought that using two worked because it reflects a lot of the type of work I do as well as my approach. Just recently I had this exact situation of control vs. spontaneity face me. Continue reading →

This is the best photo I took in art school. Hands down. We had an assignment to emulate the work of a famous artist, and one of the people on the list was John James Audubon. Creepy little science nerd that I am, I just happened to know that all of Audubon’s birds were drawn from stuffed specimens that he had shot. Continue reading →