I think one of the most important parts of avoiding stagnation is to constantly challenge yourself. There are always so many ways you can find yourself surprised. I am constantly trying to find new ways to shoot on dreaded sunny days, ...
2019-06-07 19:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I have wanted to work with Devi for what feels like absolutely forever. I fell in love with her work the very first time I saw it, and it just took a while for everything to come together. This is partially due to my inability to get m...
2019-06-05 23:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Even in the depths of winter we are lucky to be here in a world of Evergreen. January came months ago, and I am of course still catching up on editing. For a minute I was trying to limit my shoots to one look per shoot, but when the ca...
2019-06-04 22:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Flowers like fall colors are fleeting. The Camellia tree blossomed, bloomed, and then dropped its petals like rain beneath the tree. Our first 5 months here have been full of surprises and the rapidity with which all of this happened w...
2019-06-03 22:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It can be difficult to judge the passing of seasons. Is winter over when we first see the sun, or the first plants shoot up with green. I know that for my shoot with Morgan Brooke the light was deceptive. The wind can whip here t...
2019-06-03 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I try to never take for granted how lucky I am to be able to create with so many incredibly talented artists. My collaborators are so good that even when I feel like I am in a rut or struggling to figure out where I want to go with my work w...
2019-06-01 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I followed a small game trail the other day through some holly branches and up the stream just a short ways where I found this beautiful opening. The tall tree's branches covered in moss tilt down the slope towards the open light, but do not...
2019-05-31 19:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I've learned to look up. Half way through my shoot with Ravyn out of the corner of my eye I saw some blue jays dive bombing a tree not far from us. Following their flights I saw that they were attacking an owl chasing it from tree to t...
2019-05-28 21:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I just love watching the natural world around me transform from week to week. The weather has been fucking with me a little bit the last two months bouncing from heat and sun to clouds and rain and back. The flowers, trees, and I are l...
2019-05-23 23:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post
One of things I love about photography is its ability to capture motion. We have so many options with how we tell a story that in other mediums would be difficult, or impossible. We can freeze time, show the strength of wind, the delic...
2019-05-20 00:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sunset is relative to where you are standing. Hours before it dips past the horizon it can touch your window for the last moment on any given day. We have built ourselves little box canyons.
Aybaby Midnight (Bixton) was k...
I have been home now for the longest stretch of time I can remember in a decade. Its may and last I left this place was early March. I have been traveling so much for so long that being in the same place feels like a discovery I had mi...
2019-05-07 21:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Its incredible to me how green our winters have become. The grey sky meets green earth, while still our trees are bare. Its something I get used to until it leaves. The changing of season here is just a changing of greens, but th...
2019-05-04 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Its almost weird to see these images now. Hardly anytime has passed, but since Shelby arrived earlier this year for this shoot we have been so busy. The green house I really just thought of as a place I would want to shoot when we firs...
2019-05-04 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first time in my adult life I have a hobby other than photography that I devote time to everyday. I wake, I drink coffee, I eat, I check on my plants. Each day I watch for growth, check to see what needs watered, what needs lig...
2019-04-25 02:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Learning a new place is always the hardest. Sometimes I know how things are going to come together others not so much.
The carpet in our new home is one of the things I immediately fell in love with. Florals reminiscent of the T...
So here is the deal. I have always tried to do at least a little bit more of a blog post with each of my shoots either with where I am at in thinking about my work, or an individual shoot, etc etc
But lately I have been shooting a lot...
What a beautiful invasive plant we have crawling through our forest trying to pull down the tall trees. When all other greens have gone brown for the winter the ivy stands out in the forest bright upon the bark. I'm not sure if I will ...
2019-04-21 23:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
An incredible golden piece in the golden wheat, Porcelain made her first trip down to Portland since our move, and despite coming down with a flu that pretty much left her glued to the bed, somehow she got up, ready, and out to the backyard where ...
2019-04-20 00:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have fallen in love with this desert...seasonably. I've made the mistake of being in Las Vegas during the summer multiple times in my life. What can you do? In my head I knew it was going to be miserable then I arrived and was ...
2019-04-16 03:52:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Its been 2 or 3 years since my last shoot for Fauna, so much has changed though, and now we have a forest that is ours. A place we can explore, and shoot among the soft light under tall trees.
Dahlia and Tazia are my first shoot for t...
I've taken to visiting the desert in the dead of winter. The short days provide refuge from the mid day sun. Soft light bounces across canyon walls painting colors we can not perceive until we click the shutter. I'm hiking over c...
2019-04-08 19:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The forest was transformed by a snowfall for a few days here in Portland. I had a shoot scheduled with Salem a couple weeks after it was supposed to hit, but she reached out to me ecstatic about shooting in the snow, which was perfect becaus...
2019-04-04 19:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post
All months are whirlwinds I guess. I can't think of one that I would describe in any other way since I finished high school. Back in January Tazia, Kayla, Dahlia, Ashley French (incredible photographer) and all of their partners came u...
2019-03-31 03:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
When we arrived and saw the many flowers and succulents in the green house I knew the one person I absolutely had to photograph along side all the plants was Devin. While Nicole and I have been pretty apathetic when it comes to growing plant...
2019-03-19 21:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The wind whips hard during winter here, so when the creeks banks aren't flooded from rain or snow, it is best to retreat just a little ways into the forest. Not so far that we have fled the light, but just far enough that we aren't touched b...
2019-03-09 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been traveling across the world now for years. Always looking places far and remote, but I've started to miss life on the road. The America's have so much to offer from Canada to Chile and Peru there is no lack of beauty that we ...
2019-03-03 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Shooting multiple models is always a hard thing no matter how experienced everyone on the shoot is, but when it comes together its a magical moment. Its all about getting each person into place, and then getting the expression right, and the...
2019-02-25 00:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Largely responsible for our move to Portland, Lillias should have been one of my first shoots when we arrived here, but it took two months to get her to come by during the daylight. The days are short, so I can't hold it against her! W...
2019-02-23 01:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I've never had a place quite like this to work in: incredible light on days of heavy rain, safe, warm-ish. Sura came over on a day where the rain was heavy and intensely cold. The cold is rarely the problem when it comes to the m...
2019-02-17 04:23:50 +0000 UTC View Post