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 [...]
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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 [...]

Street Portraits from the Pacific Northwest
If you read my last post you’ll know that I recently returned from a week long vacation in the Pacific Northwest. As I’m sure you can imagine…as long as I have a camera in my possession it’s never solely a vacation. So I kept my eyes open for potential subjects and interestingly, a common theme [...]

The story behind my portrait of Juanita
Juanita, 2009 I am honored to be one of 10 photographers featured in FoundFolios April FoundXPOSED portraits campaign released today. I am very happy they selected the image of Juanita. Out of all of the photo’s I have taken, this is still one of my favorite portraits. So I thought it would be cool to tell the story [...]

Check out our new ‘Lifestyle Portraits’ Gallery
View the Gallery As you can see from my post below, I recently embarked on a new, personal series of lifestyle – street portraits. Now only 3 weeks and 50+ people later I have officially launched a new gallery on my site. I am very proud of this series since it came from the pure [...]

Street Portraits around my neighborhood
If you’ve visited JeffNewton.com or this blog over the past few days you might have noticed some major changes. Yesterday was the ‘official’ launch of the new site/blog so that meant today was the day to let the world know. So we did the prerequesite social network posts and began the massive round of emails [...]

Personal Fashion Shoot
So we decided to do another personal shoot. Our last few self commissioned shoots have not only been personally rewarding but also well received. This time we decided to simplify things and do a more fashion based portrait session. We booked Victoria with Ford/RBA and captured some beautiful images of her in both still and motion. [...]

Parachutes and Personal Shoots
So we finally did a personal shoot. It’s been a long time coming and unfortunately there’s no excuse for how long it took. We’re still making our selects but I wanted to share some behind the scenes images.

Late night photo excursion.
I felt the need to go and take some personal photo’s tonight. I loaded up my vehicle with some basic gear and headed out. Unfortunately it was already dark by the time I left but I was still determined. After driving a while I approached a couple of people yet to no avail, and was [...]


Catching up on this crazy blog…
It’s been a while since I’ve written a substantial post on this crazy blog of ours. As life happens certain things tend to get left behind. Unfortunately this blog has been neglected as of late. I’ll try and use this post as a way to get caught up on what we’ve been up to lately: [...]