tweens

30 May 2010
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Today I photographed a group of tweens. Thirteen year old girls. Here are a few photos from the lifestyle shoot. The shoot was great fun. The girls were super energetic and enthusiastic. My only complaint was that it was hard to get any emotion that wasn’t a smile. They were too busy laughing and having [...]

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slowly moving forward

22 May 2010
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Photoshoots. Editing. Cutting room floor. Last week I just wrapped a big shoot at a diner. It was fun. The models were fantastic and the location was nice. What they failed to tell me was that there was a change in schedule. What I thought was going to be a five or six hour window [...]

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Spaces Images

12 May 2010
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Sometime last summer I started talking with Jonathan Ross, the effervescent photographer half of Andersen Ross, about a new project that he and his wife/business partner Amy were starting. This project, a new, highly specialized stock agency, has now reached the finish line with the first images now available for purchase. The dynamic duo spent [...]

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Busy, Busy, Busy

3 May 2010
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Things have been crazy around here. I just completed a photoshoot a few days ago. The images are with the editor now. I’ve got two more shoots coming up this month, one at an amazing little diner which is going to be a ton of fun and another in a beautiful house with a swimming [...]

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the grasslands of los angeles

19 April 2010
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Right now I’m busy with the non-shooting aspects of my business, planning for upcoming shoots, dealing with past shoots and the rest of my obligations. Sometimes taking photos gets pushed to the back burner and since photography is a creative drug that makes me feel really good I have to remember to just grab that [...]

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iusemarkers.com

11 April 2010
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I recently had the pleasure of photographing an illustrator for use on her new portfolio site. Full disclosure, the illustrator, Rebekah May, is my wife. Her new site is iusemarkers.com. Her drawings are cute, whimsical and full of life. I hope you like them.

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Grandmother, part II

6 April 2010
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I spent part of Sunday with my grandmother. She’s 86 and still lives on her own. I’ve written about her before in this post. I brought my camera with me and she let me take some photos. These are a few of my favorites. I need to start gathering pictures like this of all the [...]

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