Meet this foursome, from left to right: Duke, Dale, DJ (Dale Junior) and Eleana.  I met the human duo of this group at the Gilbert Farmer’s Market when I showed my photography there about a month ago.  What an amazing couple these two are. They love their horses beyond words and wanted some pictures taken for the holidays. They have been awfully kind to me. Eleana used to live by the Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction and told me that she’s never seen a photograph that captured their essence until she walked by my booth at the market.  Because of…

If there is ever anything that is distracting at work, it’s when I pass by Dee’s office. The guy is a fantastic landscape photographer and we could probably spend most days just talking about our cameras, lenses, experiences, good news, bad news, etc. I dare you to check out his image from the Palouse in Washington and not stare in awe at that spectacular landscape (see it here, 2nd from left bottom row). Dee was one of the photographers showing with me down at the Day Twelve Gallery for First Friday. He recently became engaged to a wonderful woman named…

The more and more I do photoshoots for people, the more variety I experience not only in clients, but in the surroundings where we happen to be taking the pictures. This guy at first didn’t seem homeless to me, but once you got a whiff of the alcohol, you knew that was the only option. My clients that day were Dee from work and his fiance who are getting married on January 1st and needed some photos for invitations.. So we ventured down to Civic Park in the heart of urban Phoenix. They were sitting on some steps when this…

I love photographing people, obviously, or else I wouldn’t be doing photoshoots as often as I do! Even greater still is the candid shot of a person, of a couple, of a group of friends…doing whatever it is they are doing. Yesterday I posted a slideshow focused solely on Bruges: The City…but today I’m showing you the other pictures I took…the pictures of the people. They may not be people who live there, although some are, but they are just people walking down those medieval streets, gazing in windows, snapping their own photos, taking a break by sitting down in…

Check out the look of joy on little Aly’s face…isn’t she a bundle of cuteness? Just a heads up that while I was booked full for November just 24 hours ago, today I have an opening on the evening of November 27th, the weekend after Thanksgiving. If you are looking to squeeze in some pictures before it’s too late to put them on your annual Christmas card, let me know…first come, first served, yadda, yadda. Session fees right now are only $150 for an hour. I do a 30-minute version as well for half that cost if you are on…

Something a little bit different for Movie Title Wednesday this week…you don’t get one image, you get a BUNCH of images! Yay! My portrait photography business has been ramping up here in the last few weeks so my time out shooting brackets has dwindled. Not to mention putting that photobook together has really sucked down my time. So now appears to be the right time to bust out these shots from Bruges, Belgium that I took this past July. And what better movie title than In Bruges could you possibly use for this? I dare anyone out there to find…

We’ve known the Williamson’s for a very long time. I think in this day and age we don’t always get to know our neighbors as much as we should because we end up being all-consumed with our own lives. I’m a victim of that most of the time as well. But when we bought our first house back in 2001, it didn’t take too long before the Williamson’s moved in right next to us and the rest is, as they say, history. Weekly game nights filled with Settlers of Catan, movies, TV, Scott and I applying for the Amazing Race…

The book is no longer available for pre-order, however you can still buy it at its current rate. Please click here for the dedicated page for Stormchasing Arizona. My faithful friends and fellow photographers out there know I’ve been working on a photobook for a few months now. Ever since the monsoons ended back in late September, I’ve been putting this thing together. My goal this year was to chase the Arizona monsoons as often as I could, try to capture it in as many ways as I possible, and then publish a photo journal filled with all my favorite…

A loooong time ago I used to work at AMC Theatres. I’m talking back when I was a senior in high school and then for a few years after graduation. I worked there with a couple of friends from school, one of them named Jina who eventually thought I was a cool enough projectionist to date. Yes, I married that girl, but that’s not the point of the story. Well, maybe it is. She went to work at a different AMC location and wound up meeting Dave and a girl named Maribeth. I eventually met them both at one time…

(Rebel XSi, Tamron 17-35 2.8, 17mm, ISO 100, F8, five exposure HDR) I’ve been to Las Vegas a lot over the last four years, mainly for my day job. We have a couple of clients there and on occasion they involve extended stays. While I don’t always pay attention to all the newest buildings and attractions, it had been so long since my last visit that there was a ton of cool stuff to see. This parking garage is an 8-story behemoth that apparently serves an amazing set of structures called The World Market. The reason I even ventured up…