Category Archives: Words and Stuff

Why Photograph Weddings?

Photography, for me, is a process. A life long process of finding my voice. I know it must seem odd, if you think about it, to use a vocal metaphor to describe a silent medium but it works for me so deal with it. Part of that process is trying to understand why I’m drawn...

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New Blog, New Portfolio, New Directions – In process

Hey folks. This blog and my portfolio are getting a bit of a make over. Soon you’ll be able to see a handful of full weddings, some of my commercial/editorial work on the Portfolio (iPhone/iPad friendly they tell me!) and the blog will be a bit better organized. The new portfolio is done, click HERE...

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Vision Driven Photography.

Photography is like therapy for me. Some people surf, some people have comfort foods. Some people have the bottle. I have a camera (err, well several). When I’m shooting I get lost in a world of light and form. This is good. Since going into the commercial realm I’ve had many outlets and some great...

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Art teaches us what it is to be human.

A photographer whose work I admire wrote the following on his blog the other day, ” Art teaches us what it is to be human” To which I say amen. That is why I photograph. That is why I pursue images with people. I’ve never enjoyed shooting landscapes or abstracts. But if you put a...

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Bay Area Photographer: Photography as Soulcraft: the importance of doing photography.

I’m kind of a book junkie. Boarders, Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Public Library* these places are like little dispensaries of crack for me. But not just any book. Ok, well just about any book. I tend to read in themes. For a while I was working my way through the collected works of the Puritan...

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