I’m pleased to announce that two images recently selected for Center Director’s Choice Award will be shown as part of a group showing of all Choice Award winners in Portland’s Newspace Center for Photography.  The show will open on the 3rd of September and will run through the 26th.    Be sure to have a look [...]

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I will be leaving on Saturday for Malta, Montana.  The trip will bring me back to Colorado sometime around next Wednesday.  Maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later.  It depends on how good the fishing is after the assignment.  At any rate, these trips are the reason that I still haven’t upgraded to a [...]

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In July, I had the opportunity to shadow the bird rescue and rehab operations in Louisiana for Mother Jones magazine.  The biggest problem in photographing the spill –and the reason why it was an incredible opportunity to cover its different components for different clients –is that the actual fallout from the oil is so large [...]

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Chlorine in your eyes, the way it burns and stays there like a tactile aftertaste until you shut them in the evening, safe again under air conditioned skies.  Summer has always had a taste, a smell, even after its warmth is long, long gone, faded into the pulp of  memories, a stack of things that, [...]

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In May I made a quick trip north to Oregon to shoot portraits of University of Oregon student Nate Gartrell.  Gartrell transferred from San Francisco State into the Oregon system following the California budget crisis that left its state university system in a bit of a shattered situation.  The article discusses the exodus of California [...]

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My best clients pay on time.  In fact, many of them pay early.  It’s the kind of reciprocation that not only makes me smile, but makes me feel like my work is valued and enough to ensure that, when it comes to billing and perks, I will do my best to give these clients the [...]

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The remainder of these photographs come from a couple of days spent sketching around the Gulf coast while trying to find the appropriate photographs for the story featured in the last two posts.  These pictures come from around New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish, and St. Bernard Parish.  The highlight of this bit of wandering was probably [...]

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July was Gulf month for me.  I spent most of its 31 days in Louisiana for several different clients.  Four different oil spill stories from four different angles.  Two of those clients have published the work, two more will publish in September.  The opportunity to spend such a lengthy amount of time in the region [...]

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These pictures are really just an extension of the last post.  Composite portraits of Yvonne Landry and her children, extended family, and friends of her children.  They didn’t really fit with the resulting body of work, but I’ve been enjoying refining this technique and really like these two images. 

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Assignments come in a couple of different shapes and sizes.  Some are professionally interesting and some are personally fulfilling.  This assignment turned out to be the latter, an incredible opportunity to share a slice of life that is (at least on the surface) something completely different from my own place in this world.  The initial [...]

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