JOURNAL

I love photographing families and weddings and one area I've expanding into this year is photographing fashion editorials.  Editorials are a whole different ball game when it comes to photography with the styling, wardrobe, booking hair and makeup artists as well as models.  I'm enjoying it tremendously and have been fourtunate to have a couple […]

It's that time of year again where we launch our annual portrait fundraiser benefitting the American Heart Association.  We each know someone or have personally been affected by heart disease and stroke, the #1 and #3 killers in the US.  So for every portrait session purchased in the month of October, we will donate 50% […]

I was chatting with my assistant Marissa yesterday over lunch after we had finished 3 shoots.  We were talking about fun stuff like music, movies and tv shows.  Marissa also shared with me some of the ideas for shoots she has and I encouraged her to pursue them and if there was anything I could […]

You may recall that about a year and a half ago I photographed the symphonic metal band Ashentide in Los Angeles.  Here’s a quick link to the blog post of the images from that photo shoot.  Since then, they’ve welcomed some new band members so this past weekend I was again down in Los Angeles […]

What a complete honor.  Just yesterday the popular wedding blog Style Unveiled featured the wedding I photographed of JD & Terri in Bend, Oregon.  You may recall JD & Terri’s engagement session I photographed in Phoenix, and the post I wrote highlighting their wedding, and now their wedding was featured with some great ideas for […]

I am so thankful.  I feel so blessed and could not have asked for a better team for this project.  As I had posted here on my TeamUSA photo shoot with Autumn, I was lucky enough to receive an email from Institute Magazine offering another editorial publication.  Wow, I never would have imagined it, but […]

I recently came across this TED talk posted on twitter by a fellow photographer.  It’s title first caught my attention, and once the speaker started her talk, I knew this was something I would want to share.  Eloquently shared by retoucher Becci Manson, she shares how her and other retouchers around the world donated their […]