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Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you.

Lao-tzu

The Non-Binaries of Synchronicity

Lines mean a lot to me. Lines and curves. They help create compelling narratives in which the person I’m photographing is the...

Soul Houses

Housed in these packages our souls haunt the earth accumulating wisdom and experience like snowballs until they move on to...

Look at Me

I want every person to just pop out of their photograph. I want you to feel as if you’re standing in front of them. I want to erase the...

Guided Portraits

You are a story. And a portrait is a wordless version of that story with no beginning, no middle, and no end, There is no arc to the now....

About Us

People assume I’m some sort of poet or artist but what I really love to do are team photos - portraits of people who work together. I’ll...

A Galaxy So Close You Can Touch It

We can’t possibly know what’s going on inside a person. But there’s a whole universe in there, an entire lifetime of experiences and...

The Ubiquitous You

Each person is unique, but each person is connected to every other and has more similarities than differences. Without over-stating it...

Album Cover Gravitas

I can’t take everyone out to the Marin Headlands for portraits. I wish I could. The light is sublime. And the backgrounds are so...

Fleeting Glances

I know that we are so much more than we see. We are not our photographs, not our reflections. Yet, in those things there is an aura of...

How to Create a Visceral Portrait

I shot all these DBI portraits with a 50mm 1.2. For most of you that means nothing. But do you notice how there’s almost a 3D quality to...

Own the Power Dynamic

I’ve said this before but your face is an invitation and your portrait (on social media, websites, bios etc.) is either going to beckon...

Why You Need to Always be Steeped in Art

It was my first portrait booking outside of San Francisco. Never before had I been flown in for photos but New York City is my hometown...

The Wordless Power of You

Every day I look through photos I have taken and write about one. This forces me to think about photography. This helps me to remember...

The Invitation

Do I want to meet this person? Is their photograph asking me to sit down and talk? I’ve said before that a good portrait beckons...

The Doppleganger

People are sometimes concerned about the background. But it doesn’t really matter. Unless it detracts from your face. You see, we’re...

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