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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Announcing the 2023 Alberta Photography Workshop! Very limited spots. Get the information and reserve your place now!

For Thanksgiving this year, we returned to Tahoe for a couple of days with good friends. And on this short time here, I actually went out and took some pictures.

I’m going to jump into the list of those who inspire me, in no particular order. If you follow the links, you may even see their influence on my work - from their compositions to their edits.

Many years ago, I went through and started digitizing photos that belonged to my grandparents so we could preserve them for future generations. As readily as cameras are for us today on our phones, the truth is that their generation didn’t take hundreds or thousands of photos every year.

When I got into photography, it was the very beginning of digital photography, and film was still very much the norm. I learned to shoot on film in high school, and loved it. Most of my photography was on my Canon SureShot 85mm, which is just a point and shoot.

Flatlays are a photography genre of their own. In my last post, I shared a little about the props I use when I shoot flatlays. I also shared a little about the genre itself. Today I’m going to jump into the technicals of how I go about shooting flatlays.