The Journal
Stories from the Field
Dispatches from the trail — landscapes, wildlife, alpacas, and the road in between.
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My Love Letter(s) To Our National Parks – Happy 100th National Park Service!
Our National Parks and outdoors spaces have done more for me than I can ever possibly express. I have learned more about myself, more about all of us, and more…
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14 Things I Learned While Shooting Virtual Reality
A couple of months ago, I found myself in the fortunate situation of shooting virtual reality footage with a prototype VR camera…in Tahiti. Needless to say, that was an insaneexperience…
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Gettin’ Real On The Streets With Chris Laughter And Loose At The Carnival With AlanaChan Warrior Princess
Citizine gone done published a couple of more of the editorial shoots I did for them, so I wanted to share these ones with you. This time around, I got…
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Project Beyond My Expectations. Shooting Virtual Reality For The First Time. In Tahiti!
So this is a project I’ve had to keep under wraps for almost a half year now, and it’s been hot darn damn difficult! I recently found myself shooting virtual…
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WhyMusic In Schools? Because. The Kids Dangit. The Kids.
So this was a super exciting thing for me and something I’m extremely proud of…a project I’ve been quietly working on with Earthtones for several years now has come to fruition.…
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Tahiti Bought The Ticket So You Can Take The Ride.
So I was insanely fortunate to get the opportunity to spend a week shooting virtual reality footage for the Tahiti Tourism board in French Polynesia on the islands of Tahiti with…
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Can Photography Be A Treatment For Depression?
Note: So this could quite possibly be the most personal thing I’ve ever publicly posted. It took me months to draft it and I originally published it on my Ello…
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Just Me, My Smartphone Camera, My City, & a Zine.
This was super fun! Recently, Citizine, that publication that I did the editorial shoots for, asked lil’ ol’ me if I would go out and shoot my city of L.A. through…
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The World Forestry Center Celebrates Its First 50 Years And Charts The Course Of Its Next 50
Over the past several months, I’ve been blessed to be able to work with some organizations and causes that lie very close to my psyche. As most of you already…
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Citizine Helped Me Re-Discover My City Through The Eyes Of It’s Influencers
Over the course of a recent 4 weeks, I found myself hanging out in the Funny or Die offices with the company’s co-founder Mike Farah, sipping cappuccinos and visiting Sunset…
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Why I Love My Job (aka A Wintery Redwood Ranch Retreat At Sequoia National Park)
If someone were to ask me to dream up the perfect piece of property and location to call home, I’ve found it. I was there. And it was all mine for 5…
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Let Me Be Candid Here…
Several years back, when I first began my immersion into digital photography world, I found myself religiously listening to every photography related podcast I could find. As the years went…