Redlights and Redeyes

You know what, Instagram?  I’m sorry. I cursed you and your buddy Hipstamatic for the last couple years.  You were destroying our industry, flooding our market with imagery, and making the construction and process of image-making too easy and less intellectual.  I was one of, if not the guy who wrote the blog post that [...]

Got a nice little write up from the fine folks over at Jen Bekman Gallery and 20×200 for the upcoming Hey Hot Shot! competition.  I have no idea if I’ll make the cut or not, but it was cool to read someone else’s take on a project I literally do just for fun when I’m bored [...]

Ah, red…how I missed thee. I don’t hang my camera around my shoulder everywhere I go anymore.  It’s not the fact that I don’t enjoy shooting, because I love it more than anything other vice I have, but I just don’t feel like everything needs to be photographed at every moment.  There’s too much of [...]

Assignment:  go on tour with realtor and reporter to homes left abandoned in North Port, FL. If anything had “oh-no” written all over it, that did.  I’ve been on the “tour-with-realtor” assignments a million times before, not getting into any house, struggling to make pictures at 65 mph.  However, the realtor, Shannon Moore, saved the [...]

It’s the same for every one of us.  You finally check into a random hotel, cart all your belongings up an elevator, down a hallway, and end up at a numbered door.  The door entry card never works the first time, but then you get it to open, push open the heaviest door you’ve ever [...]

Landmarks and maps are for the devil. When I travel I’m usually shooting pre-determined locations that reveal the best side of a certain location for some magazine or newspaper. I was in Houston, Texas, to shoot a wedding this weekend for a quick 36 hours.  On Saturday, I took advantage of being a father and [...]