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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

A Vehicle of Light

People are beautiful, and the more headshots I do the more that fact is reinforced. Despite what we see out the window the world is...

A Portrait Is An Invitation

It’s 2019 and we don’t use our portraits to adorn our parlor walls anymore. Portraits are not about vanity, or the preservation of the...

Love for Sale

I don’t like to post images that look like ads. But I am still trying to figure this out, using social media to promote my work, to...

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...

Emit Your Glow

The thing about portrait photography is the page is never blank. I don’t have to *do* anything, I don’t have to *think* about anything....

Calling All Hobgoblins

Not everyone wants to be seen. I mean truly seen. Many of us prefer some degree of obfuscation. The people I photograph, mostly, want to...

Want a Great Portrait? Become a Child.

I think that maybe the trick to doing a (good) portrait is to see oneself in another person. That may seem obvious. That may seem facile....

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...

Suddenly Ephemeral

I could sit here and tell you all about the esoteric elements that contribute to a photograph. I can talk about light, and texture, and...

Subtle Sells

Corporate portraits don’t have to be, well, so corporate. The spirit and personality of an organization, what it represents, its...

I Bring You The Barn

When I did the website photos for NPM in Oakland I sourced a custom background (19th century beam skins from an Ohio barn) and set it up...

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