It had been way too long since Hattie and I had lost shot. As I typed that it dawned on me just how long its been. I think our last time shooting together was when she first moved back ...
2019-02-17 00:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I just posted the other day about how every trip I plan to LA I end up finding so many people that I want to work with that I get completely overwhelmed, and end up hardly shooting at all. It was u...
2019-02-14 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been posting a lot about this transitional period I'm in with my work, so I wanted to take today to go back, and post these four shoots that sort of highlight how things came together with Tem...
2019-02-14 00:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm still hoping this will not be my last shoot up at my favorite waterfall here in the North West. Nicole and I have tried on three occasions to make it here, but each time ran into a compli...
2019-02-13 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Why is it hot as hell in the bay? Everywhere the weather is changing. Okami and I have driven south, but up in altitude on a quest to shoot with datdeerdoe among a small forest. A...
2019-02-11 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Down by the creak we are in the depths of winter, but still the Autumn colors cling to the shore. Each storm brings the water up 5 or 6 feet further. The creak becomes a stream, and the...
2019-02-10 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One last walk through the backyard I came to love over two summers, a trip to pack boxes, and empty the home we made ours for two years. One last shoot in Seattle.
In the movie of our l...
2019-02-08 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always liked to work in series, but when one series ends there is the inbetween times. For me a series usually is built on constraints I place on myself that help in exploring ideas and ...
2019-02-05 22:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We walk out the front door to blackberry brambles, ferns, and Douglas Fir trees that have been here for a hundred years or more. The light on sunny days is beautiful in the shade of our monst...
2019-02-04 07:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Summer in the North West is such an incredible time of light, and growth. So despite not having all the space I longed for in Seattle, our little backyard still made for an incredible place t...
2019-02-04 02:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The next couple days I will be enacting the changes to my Patreon to make this a better experience for everybody!
1. Bigger files, no more watermark
Starting in Feb...
10 years a road warrior.
In 2008 I worked briefly as a retoucher for a senior picture studio in York, Pa. I was fired after a month. It took me about a month to automate t...
Portland is already feeling like it was the right choice. I know every place you live or visit will have its honeymoon phase, which Nicole and I are clearly in here on this next part of our j...
2019-01-23 05:36:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm coming off a whirlwind week of shoots with new people in our new place, and I'm looking at an edit list that I'm excited to tackle. I haven't felt this sort of creative freedom in a littl...
2019-01-14 20:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The light falls dappled through the green leaf covered trellis above us. I'm on my way to Brazil, but couldn't help but take advantage of a 3 day layover in San Francisco. The plan was ...
2019-01-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ending Temperance was somewhat freeing, but I feel like since I finished it I have sort of been adrift. The creative process for me is test out a million different things until something stic...
2019-01-06 23:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
When I first started Patreon I had a couple on going series that made it easy to create my tier levels, but with the move to Seattle, the end of Temperance, the move to Oregon, and the many changes...
2019-01-06 23:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the very first place I fell in love with in Philadelphia. It was 2006. For the first time I was living in a real city, and I walked with my classmates until we found a bridge and f...
2018-12-28 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've started traveling more often with a single image in mind. Spending months on the road with Nicole and improvising when we arrived on location for years was incredible, but w...
2018-12-26 04:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
How did I get here. Its September of this year, and I'm on a plane to Rio where I will be for three weeks of the most intense, most remote travel I have done for creating. Two years ago...
2018-12-25 00:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Traveling through California I've come to love escaping LA for Malibu. So when I had my first chance to work with Janice I was really excited to get on the 1 and take her, and Franco to one of m...
2018-12-21 00:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I will always love the way shallow water ripples around a person in photos. Frozen still there are just so many textures we can capture on its surface. I was always looking for the little ...
2018-12-15 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There is just something so magical about the last light high up in the mountains. It makes the world and everything it touches glow before it disappears and fades to blue. Bae drove down f...
2018-12-14 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not a hot weather person. So you'd think multiple trips a year to Las Vegas for photos would be my personal hell, but here we are. Two or Three times a year I'm flying from my little n...
2018-12-10 04:24:56 +0000 UTC View Post
With the death of Tumblr and Zivity I know have nearly a decades worth of work that will be forever disappearing from the internet, and I've decided to give that work a new home here on Patreon.
Its my last month in Seattle. My last month with this backyard.
The last light of the day here is magical. The tonal qualities and direction look like something I would normally use 3 li...
2018-12-05 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The forests near us in Seattle are just something so special. There are so many ways to explore shooting nudes in nature, so many things to explore. An image can be made special by the sha...
2018-12-02 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I will miss this backyard, I've never lived a place with such perfect natural light. It felt like I could step out the door, and 8-12 hours of the day was like shooting with my light set up for ...
2018-11-21 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The first place I fell in love with near Seattle was Discovery Park. Tricia Mack took me there for our shoot when I was traveling through Washington for 50 Models 50 States, and despite the fact...
2018-11-15 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost a year ago now, we spent a weekend doing a little stay in town artist retreat.
We all arrived and spent two days shooting photos, hanging out, eating and relaxing...something I ...
2018-11-10 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post