My friend Alex was asking me the other day about how well the Nikon D7000 performed in low light when recording video. But rather than try to describe the noise levels at high ISOs, I decided to put together a short video that showed the differences. This post is a bit of a departure from my [...]

My latest video project is a quick montage of video clips and photos I shot while on a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains with my good buddy Dakota and dog Jasper. As is often the case in the Sierra Nevada in late summer, we were hammered by a series of thunderstorms that kept us reading in our tents and playing chess in the truck. While I only had one clear sunset over the course of a few days, there was usually some time during the day we could get out and about, and we tried to make the most of it.

While it’s easy to think about putting your camera away when a storm rolls in, that’s often the best time to capture dramatic light, and potentially make dramatic photos.

I had a great time photographing Jackie and Mike for their engagement photos in Lotus, California. They wanted the shoot to be outdoorsy and in nature, so we went down along the South Fork American River, and were able to catch the tail-end of the fall color. Looking forward to photographing their wedding in Foresthill [...]

Watching Drake grow in his first year has been a lot of fun, and I’ve been honored to be a part of it in some small way. We gathered at Larson Apple Barn in the Apple Hill area of Camino, CA to document both him and his cousin Jordan as they pass the one-year mark. [...]

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of my recent video project, Kauai: Embracing the Journey. My goals for the video, how I had to change mid-stream, and some behind-the-scenes videos.

The greatest rewards in travel often come when expectations clash with reality. Such was the case when my wife and I travelled to Kauai, Hawaii this year. After spending hours online and buried in guide books researching all the things to do, places to see, and adventures to have, we arrived in the middle of [...]

When it came time to do Drake’s nine-month-old portraits, Sydney said she wanted to do something a little different from some of our previous shoots, such as three and six months. After thinking a bit about what we had done before, and what others were doing, I realized I hadn’t seen many baby pictures done [...]

Celine and Willy are not only an incredibly sweet couple, but amazingly relaxed and poised in the face of chaos. All weddings are, by nature, demonstrations in controlled chaos, but nothing seemed to rattle or stress these two (such as the bitter wind that kicked up during the rehearsal, or the dress arriving two hours late). [...]

I had Raychel lean against the open barn door, with beautiful late afternoon light streaming in from the left. Snap, snap, snap. Then showed her the back of the camera. “Oooo . . . I like your camera.” “Yeah. It’s not the camera, honey – it’s you.”   Raychel is one of those really sweet, [...]