Chris & I spent a day south of London in the English countryside, visiting Brighton, Seaford, Seven Sisters, Beachy Head, and Bodiam Castle. We set out to take normal, tourist photos…because not everything needs to be a banger. This was our day.

I went to London and brought three cameras: the Leica M11, M11M, and the Rolleiflex 2.8.

As a Bay Area photographer, I’m often emailed/DM’d and asked about safely photographing in San Francisco. This of course comes on the many reports of crime in the city, especially towards photographers. I made a video with tips from how I approach photographing in the city, and this blog is a continuation of that video. Check out the video first if you have time, and then proceed through the rest of this article.

Let's talk about how to make your iPhone photos look the best they can. The Creative Director for Luke Combs invited me out to hang for this concert here in the Bay, and here are the photos I got...with my iPhone.

A spring whiteout in Jackson, Wyoming led me to ask the question... if I just take out the Leica Q2M and my Leica M11 in black-and-white JPG, how different will the images be? Let's find out.

My first photowalk with the Leica Q2M.

A photoshoot at the Venice Beach Skatepark with the Leica M11 and a variety of Leica lenses.

Check out the Leica M11 with the 35mm Summilux at the San Francisco 49ers game!

A comparison of the brand new 50mm Leica Summilux against the older one, the Summicron, and even the Sony 50mm GM.

Join me as I walk around the beautiful city of San Francisco with my Leica M10-R and a selection of lenses.

Here’s what I’ve experienced over the last thirty-days on Youtube.

The A7R series gets a lot of hate for the amount of noise on the photos in low light. Let’s compare their last three generations, see what’s gotten better, and compare a series of images.

I recently picked up a Leica Q2 and took it with me into the desert. Check out this walk I did around the the historic ghost town of Keeler, CA.

This was a very educational year, because failure is one of the best teachers. I had many failures this year. And no, I’m not talking about personal or moral failures. I’m talking about creative failures. There were things I wanted to do this year, and despite the effort, failed at doing.

No matter when or where I shoot, if someone is with me, at some point I hand them a camera. I do this for two reasons. First, I want them to love photography and share this experience with me. To do so, they’ve got to try it! Second, while I love taking photos, I also want to be in some of the photos as well.

Everything looked right. I had checked the weather - clear skies and cold. I had checked my Golden Hour app, and it was forecasting a 9/10 for the lighting. I was prepared. The alarm went off at 3am, and I rolled out of bed in the little cabin we were staying in just outside of Jackson, Wyoming.

No one every taught or told me that you need to shoot differently in the winter than any other time of year.

Am I actually good at this? Or is it that I’ve travelled well, and therefore have great photos.

We finally got wedding photos twelve years late, and it almost didn’t even happen - again.