I began photographing as a youth, carrying my 110 Instamatic around on a US tour with my father at age 14.  Twenty-five years later, I continue to explore the world, camera in hand, creating images that are both beautiful and meaningful.

In the intervening years, I have acquired a BFA in Photography, won numerous awards and grants for my work, have had photographs published, collected, and shown in galleries, published articles and essays in various magazines, and have balanced both commercial and fine art practices.  I find that pursuing personal fine art projects keeps my commercial work fresh and alive.  I am constantly looking for new ways to approach the world through photography.

From environmental portraits to documentary projects, my work has taken me around the world.  I’ve had the privilege of photographing aid workers bringing hope to tsunami victims in India; covering the tumultuous Olympic Torch Relay in London; exploring immigrant populations in Europe; delving into the culture of adolescence in the US; documenting the opening of new homes for African AIDS orphans; capturing the joy of the wedding day from Taiwan to Napa Valley; experiencing the biking culture of Budapest; creating portraits of Pacific Northwest artists; and telling the stories of anorexia and bulimia sufferers battling for control of their lives.

Images I’ve created have appeared on the covers of magazines and in the pages of beautiful books, hang in homes and grace the world wide web.  My approach to each project is inquisitive and inventive; I’m always excited about creating the next great image.

I’m based in Portland, Oregon, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where I live in a 102 year old house with my wife and no pets.  In spite of the rain and darkness half of the year, I am proud to say I am a native.

You can view more of my work on my various websites:

Wedding, Portrait, Editorial, Travel Photography

Fine Art Photography

Beloved Left Over Graphics: My 2 Seconds’ Worth

A photographer’s life, they say, is summed up in about two seconds. You take a lot of photographs–thousands, millions, perhaps. Some photos make the final cut. A few are good. A handful are great.

Say you make 250 great images in your lifetime, if you’re a master. On average, it took you 1/125 of one second to take each image. Add up those 250 images, and you have…2 seconds.

I began this blog for a simple reason: no one but me sees all the images I take. I like an awful lot of them, for various reasons. They are edited, catalogued, filed. My wife sees a few of them. Even fewer make it to the print or publication stage, which others see. Then the prints and magazines sit in boxes in the basement, in cabinets specially built for them, in albums on someone’s bookshelf.

In this blog, I have a home for some of these images, and a few of those that won’t even make it to print. Here I have a home for my Beloved Left Over Graphics. A few more than two seconds’ worth. For all to see.

Enjoy.