Late last year I worked with The Lavidge Company on an advertising campaign for a new client, United Rentals. Upon seeing the comps that the creative team had put together I was pretty excited. It’s not everyday that a client green lights a project to be shot in black and white. I approach all of my shoots with [...]
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Featured in “The Big Book of Hacks”
I am honored to have an image featured in ”The Big Book of Hacks“. A new book published by Popular Science. The image was originally published in the May 2012 issue of Popular Science magazine. The book is essentially a DIY guide for how to make the coolest stuff you’ve ever seen. And there are some crazy [...]

A time for change and declarations
Self Portrait, December 2012 I’m excited to announce that I have signed up for the Agency Access Campaign Manager Pro program. It’s a 15 month long marking campaign that goes beyond the standard mailing lists and postcards to working with a team of consultants, designers and cold call experts. Its not cheap but I felt it [...]

Mr. Five Dollar Guy
Allow me to introduce you to Eddie – aka – Mr. Five Dollar Guy. Eddie is a regular around the Silver Lake neighborhood and as you can see, is a rather dapper individual. I noticed him as I was leaving Intelligentsia Coffee after a a long journaling session so I approached him, introduced myself and asked if I could take his [...]

New Self Commissioned Work
I am proud to present a new body of self commissioned work photographed on November 3rd, 2012. My reasoning behind this shoot: As a photographer, I must consider that unless the end buyer is confident that I can shoot the particular style their client is looking for, they may be reluctant to hire me. It [...]

My images won an SND award
So technically, I didn’t win an award – but my images did. The photo editor of the Wall Street Journal emailed me a few weeks back (yes, I know I’m very late with this post…) to let me know that my images of “The Picasso of Pumpkin Carving” won an “Excellence in Photography” award by the Society [...]

Re Post: New work for Popular Science
October 14th, 2012 Update: In honor of Felix Baumgartner’s live attempt to make his historic jump I am re posting this. You can view his live attempt HERE. Originally Published on April 4th, 2012. In late January I was commissioned to do a photo shoot at the Redbull Startos lab for Popular Science. My assignment [...]

I gave in to the ‘Hype’
My new Canon 5D Mark III This serves as a follow up to an earlier post, The Hype of the ‘New Camera’. I recently decided to sell my main camera body, the Canon 1Ds Mark III. A powerful camera that I owned since it’s release in November 2007. I was sad to let it go [...]

Americano Mondays at Lola Coffee
I present our latest edition of Americano Mondays from Lola Coffee in downtown Phoenix. They are located in the historic Gold Spot building which also houses The Pita Jungle. (one of my favorite restaurants that also catered our wedding) Their building also happens to sit next to the lofts we used to live in, which was rather nice. What [...]


From the archives – Tony Hawk 2007
Tony Hawk, April 2007 I posted a ‘Throwback Thursday” image of Amare Stoudemire on my social media sites last week. It seemed to be received well, so I thought I would do it again. As I was deciding on who to showcase this week I came across my images of Tony Hawk and thought he [...]