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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

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...

A Portrait of Eyes

What if we only looked at each other’s eyes and nothing else? Forget the head and the body and the skin. Our eyes, those soul gateways,...

How to Prepare for a Portrait, Part 1: Women

You’re getting your portrait done and maybe you dread the moment. You don’t like cameras and the whole concept sort of freaks you out....

An ODE to Edward, SFFD

Sometimes people ask me to do an ODE for them, and sometimes I ask them to allow me to tell their story. Such was the case with Edward...

Portraits Done By Feel

As someone who takes photography seriously I spend a lot of time looking at the surfaces of people and things. It appears that these...

Shooting Wide Open

Sometimes it takes a minute. Sometimes an hour or more. But that connection, that authentic bridge between two human beings always does...

YOU are The Lighthouse

You’re the beacon. You’re the source. Each person is filled with a thousand suns. I chose the name The Lighthouse to describe people....

An ODE is a Story

It begins with an image. And the location we choose is almost always an intuitive guess. In my mind it has to have some thematic...

Subtle Sells

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

The Conversation: Portrait Photography is About Talking

You push a button, some light pours through the aperture and a moment in time is preserved. A moment as seen by the eyes of a visual...

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