Somehow one of my earliest shoots for Pulp, and one I have managed overlooked posting I had wanted to work with Titania for the longest time when I found out one afternoon she was in Seattle visiting. Not wanting to miss out on the chance to work with her I quickly agreed to shoot that nigh...
2018-04-19 21:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I traveled the world to find a bamboo forest, and when I finally arrived I found it to be impossible to shoot. We build fences to protect because if we don't some of us will destroy. Its a sad thing the lengths we must go to protect what we should cherish. I aim to walk as light...
2018-04-08 21:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicole works twice a year in Vegas, and due my past experiences trying to work there I rarely joined her, but I was very wrong. Vegas is an incredible city, and now that I have more experience with what I want in a city/location I love it.
The flashing lights, casino's, and downtown ...
Carolyn and I have been trying to coordinate a shoot for over a year. Our peers in this industry often feel like ships in the night. We spend days, weeks, or months on the road shooting and creating with people from all over, so that we can come home and work through a mountain of edi...
2018-03-21 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
An ax to stoke the fire. Maybe I am not known for my pajama photography, but Porcelain and I decided to do something for fun during the retreat. Boots, a onesy, an ax , and a little north west backyard. The intermittent rain, and the soft light from the overcast day made for a f...
2018-03-20 21:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Its always good to take a break from a long term project, and just do something completely different, and so after nearly a year of traveling, and working on We Were Wanderers since our move to Seattle we decided to spend some time indoors collaborating with our local friends that we often don't ...
2018-03-19 21:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Summer days are born to end. We landed in Los Angeles around labor day as the entire west coast burned under heat and drought. Smoke and hot breeze blew through the city while we camped out by the beach in a small bnb. The hot water heater died, we took cold showers to escape th...
2018-03-09 22:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Marseille is a city of magic. Tiny winding roads filled with amazing restaurants. The streets snake up and down in a way that just feels right. We met a bartender who walked us all over town from the top of the city cathedrals back to the clear blue Mediterranean.
T...
2018-03-08 03:19:52 +0000 UTC View Post
What is photography but artistic problem solving? I have never been an artist in any other medium, so I can't speak for what it is to be a painter, or sculptor. I write, but only for myself. I play drums, but I haven't in a long written a song with somebody else in over a decade...
2018-03-03 22:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything changed for me when I was on the road for 50 Models 50 States in 2012. I started that trip not sure what direction I wanted to go in with my work, and by the time I was done I figured it out.
It would have been nice to start the project knowing where I wanted to go, but ra...
Somehow we are already three months into 2018. I still have to ask what year it is every time I try to figure out what is on the schedule. I won't lie its been hard. A lot of changes are happening of for me right now and I feel overwhelmed.
I've been sick since January and a cour...
2018-03-01 22:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
Its been a while since I have had plans fall apart as grandly as my plans for our nude in nature shoots in Japan. I have a few rules when shooting in foreign countries that influence how I select locations. Locations must be r...
Even our dog parks are beautiful in Seattle.
I found this little beach when we first moved here while walking Franco. Then summer came, and I went down to the park near our house every day to collect blackberries. With the gallons I picked well past sunset I made jams, chu...
2018-02-20 21:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been sort of taking a break from Pulp. Really I have been trying to take a break from studio lighting all together. After shooting with strobes for 10 years in Philadelphia I just don't get the enjoyment I used to out of shooting them. I'm drawn to natural light, or ambient...
2018-02-10 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The past week has felt like a fever dream. Maybe it was. I've been traveling more by plane than I ever have before. I've been sicker more often than ever before. Flight has its benefits, but the amount of time I have been forced to spend in bed recuperat...
2018-02-10 01:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't usually get companies interested in sending me photography gear to test out. The nature of my work sort of precludes me from working on any sort of marketing campaign. But back in September Lens Baby was nice enough to send me one of their new Velvet 85mm lenses to play with.<...
2018-02-08 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The last light of the day is often the best light. Not so true in Seattle during the winter, but Los Angeles it seems to always be the case. I suppose first light is great too, but I'm not a morning person, unless I have stayed up working on photos until morning.
I spent almost al...
How do we avoid becoming caricatures of ourselves? I am turning 30 this month. It feels like with the passing of time I should be finding a way to reconcile the person I am now with the person I was in my 20's when this all began, but it is a struggle.
I worry that I am lo...
2018-01-14 03:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I get far too much credit for the work I am able to create. I look for places where the light and the landscape come together, where a model can highlight the scale of nature. I look for places where the final image can say something about how we relate to nature our strength, our weakne...
2018-01-10 23:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I shot with London was in 2008. We walked down to the Susquehanna River down the road from my home, and shot along the shore. I couldn't believe then that someone as incredible as London was willing to stop in my tiny town to create with me. Afterwards we stole to...
2018-01-06 07:02:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I wait for the last light of the day to fall through the window. Everything we own casts its longest shadow. We fill the dark with what light we can find in people. Its winter now, but it wasn't when Gothlet came to shoot. In the summer things were easier the end of the da...
2017-12-28 01:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I take in the fog and rain when I can. Let the mist fall around me. For as long as I have been traveling I have been enamored with Olympic. The way on some nights the clouds dance away from you. It is raining, but so lightly you can't be touched. The world moves slow...
2017-12-24 03:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I set foot in Paris I fell in love. We boarded the train in London and set off arriving in France the fall of 2011. The cool air fell around us, and I stared at every place the language was written with stupor. I didn't grow up expecting life to take me to the pla...
2017-12-22 22:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I think its important to have a lot of projects. At least it is important for me. When I do the same thing over and over again without occasionally trying something else I feel like I stagnate, and it gets harder and harder to pick up the camera.
I love photography, but boredom ...
2017-12-20 04:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Summer and Winter transformations in the North West are a little different than I what I grew up with. On the east coast summer ends, the green dies off, and the snow rolls in, or it doesn't...either way the color is gone. The forest is leafless.
Our first summer in Seattle the...
I apologize for the disappearing act since the beginning of the month, I've been working hard to catch up, and I still want to make December great for all of you, so I will be updating every day for the next 12 days. Imagine a 12 days of Christmas, but instead the dates aren't relevant, and...
2017-12-13 21:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
November has came and gone, and it was a pretty hard month...amazing, but hard.
After hitting my goal to go and shoot for We Were Wanderers in Japan Amber, Nicole, Porcelain, Henry and I planned a trip that took us from our home base in Seattle to Tokyo and then down to Kyoto. Over-all ...
Svensky was one of my last shoots for Temperance.
I could barely stand up for this shoot I was so sick. My temperature was 102, and I hadn't successfully eaten in three days. But I love my work, and I hate disappointing anyone that has traveled to me to be a part o...
Initially Jessa and I wanted to shoot for The Jungle when we did our last Into the Wild shoot, but the spot we hiked too didn't feel like it was clicking all that well for the feeling of The Jungle at the time. An entire year later I feel like I was probably wrong.
I was looking thro...
Summer is sort of my shooting enemy. Its hot, children aren't in school, the sky is generally cloudless, and every terrible plant in the forest is growing in abundance. Two years ago Damsel, Rachelle and I learned this first hand when we tried to shoot in Wisconsin.
The midwest...