“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” — Robert Capa

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Film

I love celluloid film. I love its smell, the satisfying ritual of loading a roll into my camera, and most importantly the look it...

The Lens

I am a Nikon professional who shoots with any camera that offers stability, control, and reliable results. My focus has never been gear-driven. I...

Prints

My philosophy goes against the grain of the industry in that I do not charge for prints or for printing an image of your...

Color, Distraction, and Control

I do photograph in color, but I treat it carefully. Color is powerful — sometimes too powerful. The human eye is drawn to it...

The Oath and The Conversation

I have carried a camera long enough to watch the argument repeat itself every decade: Is photography art, or is it evidence?The honest answer...

Monochrome

Photography did not begin in color. It began in light. Long before software sliders and preset packs existed, photographers worked with luminance — the simple...

Silver and Silicon

Photography has always felt to me like a friendly argument between chemistry and electronics. I use both film and digital cameras, and while they...

Life Instead of Math

A digital photo is built from pixels — tidy little squares in a grid, each one assigned a number. The sensor measures light intensity...

Saying Something Real

Fine art photography looks easy to people who don’t do it. It’s “just a picture,” they say. No bride waiting, no editor calling, no deadline,...

Club House

I’m not chasing a picture, I’m chasing power. Color records the world. Black and white reveals it. That sounds like a romantic exaggeration until you...

Voices

Public protest is the closest thing I have to street photography. I live in a small town where the streets are usually empty, which...

Intentional Camera Movement

Photography has always been full of rules. Keep the camera steady. Use a tripod. Freeze the moment. Make everything sharp. For most of my...

Chiaroscuro

I am a photographer. An artist. And for most of my life I have found my own images boring and lackluster. I have been making...

Blur

Most photographers spend their lives trying to eliminate blur. They buy faster lenses, chase higher shutter speeds, and obsess over sharpness like it’s the...

Sentinel Rock

So how should your wedding go? What should you expect from it? If you expect it to go flawlessly, that’s wishful thinking. I’ve been to...

Community to Courage

In many towns, especially across rural America, the people who answer emergency calls are not career responders but volunteers. Volunteer firefighters and EMTs begin...

Pano

Panoramic photography has always felt a little closer to the way the human mind actually remembers a place. When I stand somewhere with a...