Legacy Portraits on Film and Inspiring Photo Essays
More people are experiencing the glut of photography. It's everywhere, it's instant, it's disposable, and that's exactly where it goes--away. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I remember when I was a kid, we had professional portraits made every year, and our family would make family portraits that would line the wall alongside the staircase. And all my friends,... Continue Reading →
Not everyone demands top quality from a photographer. But as a professional with 30-years of experience as an award-winning published photojournalist, that's all I offer. It certainly costs more, but you get the best quality and service. If you don't want that, please don't call me. I don’t hand over image files because I care... Continue Reading →
PORTRAITS ON FILM - What's the difference? I am proud to be known as a Film Photographer. It's my passion and what sets me apart from most photographers. Why use film when digital is so much easier? Who said art has to be easy? And why is easy better? IT'S ABOUT MAGIC I shoot film... Continue Reading →
The year is 2066. We're teleporting to different parts of the earth, holding meetings on virtual beaches while sitting at home, and having robots do all the chores. And we're using the latest camera technology, which means no camera at all--just look at something and it's captured. We're lamenting not having any photos from the... Continue Reading →
We don't shoot photographs. We preserve history. I am keenly aware of this as I visit my family and photograph brothers and sisters, parents and children over the holidays. We really are the family documentary photographers. As a photojournalist, capturing the story of a family in the everyday moments, whether shooting a formal dinner, playing... Continue Reading →
Made with a Rolleiflex T twin-lens reflex camera on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, it's a moment captured on film that has a feeling all its own. And very few of the digital photos being taken today will last 50 years, like this will. Because this negative is physical--I can hold it in... Continue Reading →
Sunset on the last day of the annual film festival in Boulder.
I have this project I've been working on the last six months called The Wise Photo Project. I photograph older folks who often don't have anyone taking their photo. Most of the attention is on the kids, and as one older man once told me, "The older you get the more invisible you become." So... Continue Reading →
I walked though the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit, AMERICAN COOL, last year. I shoot for a client in Washington D.C. every spring, and usually there's a little down time when I can walk over to the museums and catch a few. In the American Cool exhibit, no one was smiling. Well, not no one, but... Continue Reading →
