Danvi and Joseph
I have know Joe since I was a little tyke. Growing up in the same, tiny little town affords the opportunity to get to know everyone in your age group. We went through middle and high school together until Joe went to Berkeley and I went to film school. A couple years after that, during [...]
2010 CalArts Graduation
I’ve been working at CalArts for just over a year and a half and until yesterday had never been to a graduation. Even if you have no connection to the school I would wholeheartedly recommend coming by next year for the festivities. It is a wild experience! When the festivities were all wrapped up there [...]
Cormac and Rachel
I’ve shot a few engagement sessions and a few engaged couples, but I have never shot an engagement — until now. My friend Cormac called me the other day and popped the question: “Will you photograph me popping the question?” Beyond a stammered “yes, yes!” I managed to contain my excitement just enough to ask [...]
Justin and Emily
Every wedding is an incredible event, but every so often there’s one that you’re overly excited for. My cousin Justin and his fiance Emily asked me to photograph their wedding in October and I couldn’t say yes fast enough. The ceremony took place at Justin’s parents’ estate in Rancho Cucamonga, CA during picture perfect day [...]
Jorge and Pam
I have a lot to thank my buddy Jorge for. I first met him as The Section Quartet‘s new manager, on the way to my first Coachella (to which he arranged my credentials), way back in 2006. Although I called him George for the first half of the weekend he persevered through my unintentional ignorance, [...]
Electric Daisy Carnival
I have shot the Coachella Valley Music Festival for the past few years and that is an experience unto itself. To cover the Electric Daisy Carnival, festival that occupies the entire Los Angeles Colosseum and spills out into the courtyards with carnival rides, including a full sized ferris wheel, was a challenge to say the [...]
Fight From Above
Back when I was in film school I met writer and musician David Schechtman. We were had a few classes together and hit it off really early on. He told me he was in a band, Fight From Above, and I said I’d love to shoot their next show. They were playing at The Whiskey [...]
Miner
I first met Justin Miner, lead singer of Fight From Above, at The Whiskey on Sunset Blvd during my first performance shoot with them. We were in the dressing room above the second story and Miner was caught in this pre-show trance. Staring into the middle distance he wasn’t giving a second though to anything [...]
Daniel and Elyse
I’ve known Daniel and Elyse for a very long time. Growing up in a small town you get to know everyone in your age group pretty closely. They started dating sophomore year of high school and even after the first week you could tell there was something there. Some couples have this effortlessness about them [...]
Ronnie Wilkins
Fillmore is a very bizarre place. About an hour northwest of Los Angeles and half that time from the beach city of Ventura, it is the Bermuda Triangle of Southern California. Even people who live less than 10 miles away often don’t know where it is. That quality brings some truly amazing people to my [...]
Cheyenne
I had another opportunity to shoot with Cheyenne tonight! We had the idea of a more classical black and white look that would be contrasted with the raucous wild haired contemporary image. I’m very happy with the results! (Canon 5D, AlienBee 800w Strobe)
Whimsical Jenny
Jenny is quickly becoming my “let’s experiment with a flashlight” model! I just received a new lens to play around with: a Russian made Zenitar 16mm F/2.8 fisheye! When compared to lenses made in Germany or Japan it becomes painfully obvious that this Russian lens is a cheap, quickly produced, dollar store purchase — but [...]
Jenny
Between Fillmore and Moorpark lies Highway 23, also known as Grimes Canyon. It is a fairly common occurrence for unwitting drivers to find themselves at the bottom of a 100′ cliff if they aren’t careful enough. Apparently the problem reached critical mass in 2006 and CalTrans (assuming here, not sure if it was them or [...]
The product of one of the few small towns left in California, Christopher enjoyed a childhood ironically filled with travel. At just two months old his mother, an unapologetic jetsetter, introduced him to Europe for the first time. His father, a designer and professor born in England, opened his eyes to the intricacies of the apparent mundane. The reserved world of the English Cotswold’s clashed with the spirit of the vagabond and pushed Christopher to develop a style that is intensely expressive, emotional, yet accessible.