You don't need great photos.  You deserve them.

Photography must be unobtrusive.  Candid.  Real.  Genuine.  It must tell a story.   

It's somewhere within a quiet, imaginary place between a posed subject and their next motion.  In available window light and a downward glance.  It's a smile between two people only they were meant to see.  The way a hand pushes hair behind an ear and or in a soft breeze through grass.  Somewhere in these moments contains the story of life and a tale of love.

This is where I exist.  This is where I tell your story.  In a place two steps ahead, undetected, anticipating and searching for those subtle moments. 

I am an observer.

I've always been on the outside looking in.  I'm comfortable there.  I search for myself in this world of blissful romance, best-friendships, and families.  Photographing people in their finest hour. An observer of beautiful light, gorgeous people experiencing subtle, yet breathtaking timeless moments.

Who am I?

I was born in 1982 in Westminster, Colorado.  I've spent a majority of my life in Denver, Boulder and the surrounding areas.  I attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for Journalism & Mass Communication with an emphasis in Editorial Writing.  Photography was an accident.  

My earliest influences were cinematographers: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Andersen, to name a few.  After I started portraiture, I fell in love with Annie Leibovitz's posed portraits.  But, really, my main influence are storytellers in any medium, as that's how I see myself.  This includes, but is not limited to, Joni Mitchell (singer/songwriter) and Joan Didion (writer).

All my life I've always been a people person, a dreamer, an explorer and conversationalist.  I dabbled in improvisational comedy on stage, acting in college, and other endeavors that thrust me into the spotlight and require me to engage people.  My love for theater and bar-tending has given me the skill set to handle large to small crowds and any variety of personalities. I love a good whiskey, like Blanton's.  I'd never turn down an opportunity to eat oysters or a well-cut steak, but nothing soothes me more than taking and editing photographs. 

During school I always thought of myself becoming a teacher, perhaps in English or Creative Writing, but photography found me first.  So, instead of a traditional classroom setting, I like to incorporate my desire to teach into my passion for portraiture and photography.  I believe everyone has a particular vision and style and have always encouraged a strong art community as a challenge to keep me evolving my own portfolio.  I am not the type of person to push an agenda that would suggest art is ever good or bad, right or wrong, it just is - and must be.

On the eve of my 30th birthday I quit my job and drove to California.  There I worked in the movie industry in Hollywood, and photographed several weddings.  I managed to work post-production (color correction, editing, assistant editing, etc.) for Siren Studios, taking one film from start to finish, and assisting on several other indie and big-budget productions.  I've lived briefly in San Francisco, for 3 years in Seattle (Ballard), and now reside in Portland, Oregon (as of 2019).  In my spare time I love to discover seafood hotspots, volunteer teach kids board games at local game shops, and work on card or board game ideas I'm crafting by hand.  When I have down-time, I like to write fantasy and sci-fi and I'm currently working on game design.

At the end of the day, I am a low-stress, casual photograph taker that can both take command and organize, but can switch gears to allow events to unfold naturally.  I photograph people the way I'd want to be photographed.

When I hear someone say: "I'm not very photogenic."  I can't wait to show them they are.

That's my story.  Let me tell yours.