I am a photographer living in Orange County, CA. Having been heavily influenced by photojournalistic approaches to the art, I prefer shooting in dynamic or adventure situations.
I decided to head to a secret spot east of San Diego after some research indicated that two of my high priorities might be in the same place: Indian petroglyphs and abandoned trains. I wandered the desert for hours on foot and couldn’t come up with any petroglyphs in the target area (the second time [...]
Just some recent, random photos from time spent ’round the OC with Belle and Beau.
Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to have a variety of people over, and even more fortunate enough that a few of them let me abuse them in my extra room turned studio. First up were my cousin Laurie and sister Jennifer, who were over for a little party for Laurie’s birthday. On Saturday [...]
I’m not sure how I forgot to put these up, but I got the chance to do some back stage and on stage work for my cousin’s band (Section 8 ) at the House of Blues back in February. The energy of being on stage was just awesome.
As it turns out, the timing for this [...]
Landing in New York City recently, I had high hopes for my photography. As one of the most dynamic cities in the world with incredible architecture and people, I smugly thought to myself, how hard can it be? As Moltke the Elder once said, “no plan survives first contact with the enemy.” And boy, was [...]
Saturday gave me the opportunity to shoot Diane and JP at the Katie Wheeler Library in Irvine. Formerly part of the huge Irvine family ranch, the grounds contain historic buildings from the Orange County of yesteryear. The library itself is a modern copy of the old Irvine family house, but has been so faithfully recreated [...]
Some time ago I met Alex and Catherine in a small, vegan-friendly restaurant in Long Beach to talk about wedding photos. Prior to this one, I had avoided shooting weddings for various reasons. Within about 15 minutes, however, I knew that I had made the right choice in deciding to make their plunge my plunge [...]
Just another series of sunset on the Pacific. These were shot at Corona Del Mar, in a location I photographed a few months ago. I like the location, although in general SoCal sunsets bug me: we don’t seem to have the humidity necessary to get good cloud cover very often once winter has passed. *sigh*
I [...]
This is a double post for two shoots I recently did. The first is little Emma (who just turned 1) and her mom Paula. The second is the Rivera family and their little man Noah (who’s going on 6 months).
Now that I’ve shot a few 1-year-olds, it’s become apparent to me that the brain really [...]
This week has been a difficult week on a few levels. Rather than just go home and be stressed out, a friend and I thought it would be fun to take duck pictures for some odd reason. Instead of ducks I got mostly geese, and then eventually dinosaur, jerk geese. (More on that in a [...]
I was recently given the opportunity to photograph the Cambodian (Khmer) New Year festivities at a large Buddhist temple in San Bernardino. It was my first editorial type job, so I was a little nervous. And, while I think i could have done a better job in capturing all of the festivities, the people and events [...]
To just look at my photos, keep scrolling down the page and ignore all my blathering.
I had the great fortune to travel to Ireland and Italy in late March, 2010, with my sister and cousin. My brother is sort of living in Ireland, so we started our trip there and then headed over to Italy [...]
I’ve come to really enjoy the drama of long-exposure water photography, but it’s probably one of my least practiced subjects. Fortunately, my talented photographer brother is always down for a road trip, so we headed to Corona Del Mar to catch the sunset. We labored through the tide pools, heading south of arch rock but [...]
Below are some random sunset photos from two recent excursions. The first three photos are from a New Years Day boat ride off Dana Point. It was supposed to be a whale watching trip, but ended up being just a water watching trip.
The second set of photos were taken at the Huntington Beach pier. [...]
I met Baylie and her family at Carbon Canyon on one of the nicest SoCal days in a while. We had great light and excellent temperature for running on the playground or feeding the ducks (one of my favorite activities). Baylie took a while before she opened up for me, but even while being shy [...]
Since everyone else on the web does an end of year retrospective, I figured I might as well also. 2009 has been a good photographic year for me. I don’t know that I’m a particularly good photographer yet, but I feel as though I got to another level of skill by the time this year [...]
Another post with random photos for you. The first set comes from my good friend Declan (“Danger”) and his mom/dad Becky and Trevor (who in my head I just accidentally called “Decky, Beclan and Trevor”). They’re now expecting child numero dos, which is what the “+1″ is all about. The last photo is my favorite; [...]
I had the good fortune to join Keith Skelton and a few other photographers on a trip through Death Valley earlier this month. As a kid, an old mentor friend of mine had told me about the moving rocks on the so-called Devil’s Racetrack, and I had been wanting to see them ever since. For [...]
I met Xochitl, Clayton, and Clayton at my old stomping grounds in Carbon Canyon today. I’ve known Xochitl for years, but had the pleasure of meeting her two Clays for the first time. They were after Christmas card photos, but at the end of the day we had so much more than that. I’m hopeful [...]
Rather than buying a motorcycle, I recently burned my down payment on a new Canon 7d camera. It’s pretty much the most incredible piece of technology I’ve ever owned, so you can imagine that I was itching to try it out. Fortunately for me and my 7d, my friend Natasha is a nanny and asked [...]
