There is something I absolutely love about sketchy motel rooms.  I know that’s not a normal way to begin a paragraph, but it’s true, I love them.  I can’t exactly explain why but there’s a certain mystique that comes along with them to me.  I’m not even talking about the two-star Ramada Inn that made [...]

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I often get wrapped up in the big picture of my photographic life – the career, daily assignments, projects, marketing, and office work.  I feel this can cause me to forget what drew me to pick up a camera in the first place.  It’s all the little things that originally sparked my attention.  The small [...]

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I spent last Friday fighting my way through the evil tangled invasive-mess we call privet along the steep bank of a creek between two industrial factory complexes.  My guide, Nelson Brooke of the Black Warrior Riverkeepers, was kind enough to lead me to the discharge pipes along Avondale Creek where McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company [...]

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This week’s ‘Postcard’ section in TIME Magazine features one of my images from the Cannabis Culture essay I shot last year and will be continuing when time and access allot.  This particular photograph depicts the display case at the Cannabis Therapeutics dispensary in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
You can check out TIME’s story here.  You can also [...]

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On the way down to photograph the Elvis Extravaganza Competition at the State Fair in Tampa, Florida, LUCEO photographer Kendrick Brinson and I made a detour to Weeki Wachee, Florida to see the glorious spectacle we had heard so much about.  Fortunately, once we arrived, the 60’s-era throwback dank subterranean-theater did not disappoint.  The curtain [...]

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Ok, so Steve Gillis might not be ‘The King’, but he’s got my vote – as well as that of many platinum blonde ladies.  Steve was kind enough to allow me a behind-the-scenes look of his transformation at his motel room before The Elvis Extravaganza National Finals and Fan Convention at the Florida State Fair [...]

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Editor and fellow photographer Paul Moakley called me a few weeks ago with a last-minute shoot down in Tampa, Florida to cover a protest hosted by some folks involved in the Tea Party Movement.  Political photography is a bit of thrill for me for personal reasons and I had wanted to work with Paul for [...]

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Tucked away along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia, sits a strip of road speckled with seedy motels along a gorgeous beach.  The road is bookended by fancy high-rise hotels and a golf course to one end, with a US Naval base on the other.  The character of these places takes on [...]

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I already made a post about our recent NYC trip, but I’ve been on assignment and just got to looking at the film from the week.  As a relative new-comer to shooting film seriously, I’m always thrilled to get it back from the lab.  The anticipation of waiting a handful of days after you make [...]

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Our friend Andrew was kind enough to rent the LUCEO crew his loft in Williamsburg for 10 days, the duration of our first biannual meeting of 2010.  Throughout our 4 days of shut-in business meetings and our nightly photographer reviews, 86 North 6th turned into my home away from home for me.  The loft became [...]

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