Week 01 – Be here now.

Week 01 – Be here now.

  First official Project 52 photo!! The idea behind this self-portrait is all about being present and aware. I recently sat a Ten-Day Vipassana Mediation Course that taught me so much about living a peaceful and positive life, and this inspired me to create something that symbolized the peace on the inside, even while things…

Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Climbing

Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Climbing

If you don’t know this by now, I’m a climber. I love to climb. I love climbers. I love climbing with climbers. I especially love it at this gem of a place in Arkansas. It’s a 5 hour drive from Kansas City, but well worth the weekend visit. Especially if you pick up sparklers on…

Week 0 – Project 52

Week 0 – Project 52

  To start things off, I thought I’d do a BTS (behind the scenes) of the Project 52 Promo Photo. This image was pretty simple to create, though it required creating a blue background from scratch because, unfortunately, I don’t have an awesome blue wall like that where I live. I did, however, have a…

Project 52

Project 52

  I have officially decided to start my very own Project 52. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it basically means that I plan to shoot, edit, and post one self-portrait every week for one year (52 weeks in a year, get it?) with the intention to improve my skills and…

Pool Party

Pool Party

There’s nothing like a good pool party with new friends! I decided to bring my camera gear and setup lights for some diving board shots, and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I got tons of greats photos, but these ones were some of my favorites. For some of these shots, I played…

Hide in the Shallows Album Artwork

Hide in the Shallows Album Artwork

I had the privilege of recording and mixing my good friend Allen Arias of Hide in the Shallows, and we recorded a total of 10 songs for his first full-length release. He also hired me to create the album artwork, which I had a lot of fun shooting, compositing, and editing in photoshop! If I…

25 was great, but 26 is sure to top it…

25 was great, but 26 is sure to top it…

For the last 10 days I’ve been sitting a Vipassana Meditation Course in a small town just west of Chicago. There’s no technology allowed (phones, computers, etc.), no reading or writing materials, no talking, no eye contact, and you are provided with two meals a day and a fairly firm bed to sleep on. The…

Civilian CD Release Show

Civilian CD Release Show

I just had one of the most fantastic nights of live music in my life. Civilian put together an amazing show to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Should This Noose Unloosen‘, including an amazing set by my good friend Kyle Cox. The venue has some pretty nasty LED lights, so I did my…

Eggciting News…

Eggciting News…

  It’s Easter, why wouldn’t I photoshop me and my grandma’s face on a couple of eggs!? I know I haven’t posted in a long time, I’ve been really busy (mostly with work)… but I do have plans to take photography on full-time this coming summer, as well as put a lot of time towards…

Backyard Slacklining

Backyard Slacklining

There’s nothing quite like slacklining with a good friend on a nice day in the Spring. That friend was Mr. David Tindle, and I can’t wait for our next slacklining session. I thought I’d bring out a few lights and see what I could make of our backyard session (I always like watching the sunset…

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