Old San Juan Recently, I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a bridal shoot. While I was there, I came across this man playing an accordion on a door step in Old San Juan. It was just after sunset and the streets were starting to grow dim except for this one bright area[more…]
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Window Light Portrait in Tibet Many of you mostly know me as a wedding photographer. Many years ago, I also worked quite a bit doing adventure travel photographer for magazines like Outside and National Geographic Adventure. While spending nearly two months traveling in Asia, I made a number or portraits throughout Tibet, China, and Nepal. Sometimes[more…]
Anatomy of an Image I decided to start writing a serious of blog entries describing the thought process of what goes into a single image from a wedding shoot. I want readers to understand where I was coming from creatively and what went into the image technically. My goal is to explain an image every[more…]
Venue: Copper Station at Copper Mountain I love weddings that are a little out of the ordinary. When Ben called me and asked, “I have a question about wedding photography. Can you ski?” I was pretty intrigued. Having to ski to photograph an event is nothing new for me, but I have to say I was[more…]
Carin and I have sure been getting in a lot of skiing this season. If you don’t already know it, two of our favorite activities involve skiing and travelling. a few weeks ago we were able to do both. We had a little time off so we decided to take an impromptu trip out to Lake Tahoe[more…]
My wife, Carin, and I really enjoy traveling. I wish I was one of those cultured individuals that could carry on a conversation in dozens of languages as I traveled the world. Sadly, that just isn’t the case. What I can do is go is order beer in Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, German, French, Tibetan, Spanish (both[more…]
One of my favorite things to do is to photograph the weddings of friends. I met Karen over ten years ago when I was in graduate school at Northern Illinois University. At the time, I was the graduate assistant for the Outing Centre, the university’s outdoor adventure program. I hired Karen to work as[more…]
I’ve had a lot of people ask me what I like to do in my spare time when I’m not photographing. My wife Carin and I really like to spend as much time in the outdoors as possible. We hike, climb, ski, and especially bike. In addition to riding bikes, I also like[more…]
I recently received news from Intrepid Travel that my image, Toroweap Point Sunset, won the 2012 Annual Photography Competition for the Landscape category. I made this image a few years ago while spending several days camping at Toroweap point. Most of the images I shot were pretty disappointing. The one exception was this evening when there was[more…]
I get asked a lot about how I pack for a destination wedding. In order to have the proper back up equipment, I am usually packing at least two cameras, two flashes, multiple lenses, batteries, memory cards, and I need to make sure everything fits on the plane under the seat in front of[more…]