My favorite thing to do, photographically, is to capture images of kids. I love being around them and my creativity soars when I have one or more of them interact with me about staging ideas. Last week I had an assignment for the Reynolds School District to cover an event at the Troutdale Elementary School. [...]
1st Year Portrait
I wanted to spotlight Brynn for my photo of the week. It was her first year photo shoot and we had a blast. Since we did the shoot after Easter, she was very receptive to the idea of playing with plastic Easter eggs. As you can see from the photo she is very happy to [...]
Shoot Those Girls!
One of my favorite types of photo session is with small children. I like working with the little ones because they are so unpredictable and I actually get a great deal of exercise trying to keep up with them. While this can be a major motivator to keep me on my photographic toes, as it [...]
They’re Alive
I have been a silent business partner to my wife and her love of children’s theater for over fifteen years. Well, just to be clear, sometimes I’m not all that silent. Anyway, this last weekend was a “theatre trip” to remember. She and I met up with her business partner, Karli, in Klamath Falls, Oregon [...]
Winter Formal Fun!
Last weekend I had the pleasure of covering the Winter Formal at Portland Lutheran School. PLS is an independent prep school with students who are highly motivated to learn. This is the second time they asked me to cover an event for them and some of the students remembered me from my first visit. This [...]
How it all began
Nearly every photo shoot I’m on, someone will invariably ask me “how did you become a photographer?” or “have you been a photographer long?” And every time they ask that kind of question I find myself at a loss for words. Not that I don’t have anything to say, heavens, I can talk extemporaneously for [...]
XYZ Gallery
I just created a gallery on my archive website with the name XYZ. Why XYZ? Well, this is where I will place those photos that don’t mean anything to anyone except me. These I made just for the fun of it, like when you are a kid on the way home from school and you [...]
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