When I photograph Holiday cards I love to shoot individuals of each person… the initial concept called for Kat to be standing closer to the fire place and hoolah hooping. As you can see from the frames that didn’t make it, it just didn’t work. We finally decided to move her to the center of […]

Last week I had the chance to photograph my dear friends. The session took place at about 6pm with about an hour of direct sunlight left.  In order to get the look we were going for I used two additional lights: an Alien Bee AB800 behind an Octobox on the right of the camera and […]

Ryan and Megan have a unique energy… if you know them then you have experienced the love bubble that surrounds them. Happy one year to you both!

Two of my best friends fell in love and moved to Nebraska… back in May I got a chance to do some photos with them before they moved. Yesterday, I grabbed this one out of the reject pile, dusted it off and spent some time touching it up. For the type, my buddy Bryant whipped up […]

Happy birthday to my little bear… I wouldn’t want to imagine my life without you.

Around these parts it is time for back to school. That means we had a temporary surplus of construction paper, crayons, scissors and glue. Sitting down with the kids for some craft time we started talking about making a little family photo for the fridge… We had about an hour to concept, shoot and process […]

Kelly contacted me about doing her wedding photos and naturally I asked about doing an engagement session. She was sure Blake, her fiance, would think it was dumb so “it probably wouldn’t work out”. I knew that Blake and Kelly were surfers. I knew that they were awesome (Blake is a teacher and Kelly a […]

Jenny contacted me and she that she wanted to do some beautiful environmental portraits using her home, Jacksonville, as a backdrop. It rained cats and dogs but that didn’t stop us from creating some awesome images, these are a few of my favorites.