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.
Location: my studio. Subject: female portraits As part of my ongoing 100 portraits project, my friends Laurie and Robin stopped by Friday night to pose. My regular 9-5 has been crazy stressful over the last week, so spending an evening with this delightful duo was a welcome respite. Robin is an all-star RN, and Laurie [...]
Location: Pennsylvania. Subjects: trains, flowers, ruined town, ruined hospital, other jazz. I made my way to Scranton, PA, this past week on a business trip. Before I continue, let me extend thanks to Mark Sarno and Bruce Burke of Sarno & Son for being great hosts, and to Jo Ann, Erika, and Emily for continuing [...]
Location: Los Angeles Arboretum. Subject: Landscapes, peacocks, orchids, insects, other stuff. After several dumb wrong turns, I finally pulled into the parking lot of the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia. Because of the dumb wrong turns, I got to the enormous grounds too late in the day to cover it all. I’ll tell you though: [...]
Location: St. Louis. Subject: Architecture, flowers. I was in St. Louis on business for Savvi Formalwear, and opted to hang around a couple of extra days to shoot the city. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m from California, but the weather was miserable. It was between 90-95 degrees with humidity north of 60%; [...]
Location: Desert east of San Diego. Subject: abandoned train. 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 [...]
Location: Carbon Canyon, Dana Point. Subject: Landscapes, sky, flowers and animals. Just some recent, random photos from time spent ’round the OC with Belle and Beau.
Location: My studio. Subject: Female portraits. 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 [...]
Location: House of Blues Anaheim. Subject: Section 8 band 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 [...]
Location: New York City. Subject: architecture, cars, street photography, people. 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 [...]
Location: Katie Wheeler Library. Subject: Engagement photos. 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 [...]
Location: Westminster and Buena Park, CA. Subject: Wedding photos. 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 [...]
Location: Corona Del Mar. Subject: Ocean sunsets, long exposure. 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 [...]
Location: Hart Park and Carbon Canyon. Subject: baby, teen, and family photography. 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 [...]
Location: Huntington Beach. Subject: birds. 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. [...]
Location: Riverside. Subject: Cambodian New Year festival, monks, celebrants, dancers. 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 [...]
Location: Rome and Naples, Italy and various places in Ireland. Subject: architecture, landscapes, cemeteries, ruins, people. 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 [...]
Location: Corona Del Mar. Subject: Ocean sunsets, long exposures. 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 [...]
Location: Huntington Beach pier, Dana Point whale watching cruise. Subject: Ocean sunsets, seascapes, long exposure. 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 [...]
Location: Carbon Canyon. Subject: children photography. 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 [...]
Location: All over the place. Subjects: everything. 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 [...]
