After more than 20 years and several hundred weddings all over the world, I have retired from full time photography. Thank you to all my wonderful clients and all the great people I've met in the wedding, commercial, and photography industries! It was a fun ride but I've been winding this business down for a few years now and it's time to make it official.
I'll still be shooting, but now I'll just be off playing around with a Leica rangefinder creating images that personally satisfy me and spending time with my family.
I'll still be shooting, but now I'll just be off playing around with a Leica rangefinder creating images that personally satisfy me and spending time with my family.
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I feel so lucky to have the kind of job that allows me to meet amazing people and to create images that they love and will cherish for their entire lives.
It makes me feel like I do the kind of work that really matters!
I am very proud of how many referrals I get from past clients and how many come back after I was their wedding photographer to have me as their family portrait photographer.
Review sites like Google, Yelp and Weddingwire are a great place to see what people are saying about my photography services so don't take just my word for it, read what they have to say about me and what it's like to have me as your photographer.
It makes me feel like I do the kind of work that really matters!
I am very proud of how many referrals I get from past clients and how many come back after I was their wedding photographer to have me as their family portrait photographer.
Review sites like Google, Yelp and Weddingwire are a great place to see what people are saying about my photography services so don't take just my word for it, read what they have to say about me and what it's like to have me as your photographer.
What a winter we've had here in Bend Oregon, Another 4" of snow this morning for my sore back to shovel bringing the winter total to over 60" of snow!
I forget what the average winter snowfall is, I think something like 20 so we have been really buried since late November.
Winter fatigue has really set in and while at first everyone was so excited for the beautiful blanket of clean snow, now it's looked at with scorn and disdain with groans and moans every time people look out and see how much more shoveling we have to do! Ha!
I forget what the average winter snowfall is, I think something like 20 so we have been really buried since late November.
Winter fatigue has really set in and while at first everyone was so excited for the beautiful blanket of clean snow, now it's looked at with scorn and disdain with groans and moans every time people look out and see how much more shoveling we have to do! Ha!
Let me get this out of the way first: I do not suggest we photography your entire wedding or portrait session in black and white!
Back in the days of film when I first started as a photographer, we had to make the choice to load black and white film or color film when we were shooting.
Often, I would carry my Mamiya 645 loaded with Fujifilm color film then a 35mm body with black and white so I could shoot the bulk of an event in color and accent it with black and white.
It's certainly no secret that we now shoot everything in digital and don't have to make that decision until post processing.
Back in the days of film when I first started as a photographer, we had to make the choice to load black and white film or color film when we were shooting.
Often, I would carry my Mamiya 645 loaded with Fujifilm color film then a 35mm body with black and white so I could shoot the bulk of an event in color and accent it with black and white.
It's certainly no secret that we now shoot everything in digital and don't have to make that decision until post processing.
You want prints and I can prove it: have you ever heard someone say "I'm so glad to look at my wedding photos on my computer!"
What I do hear all the time is "ugh, I still haven't made my album" or "I have one picture from our wedding up but really need to go through them sometime."
Often, those weddings were 5, 10 or even more years ago!
Even after 10 years and hundreds of couples, I'm still always a bit surprised that nearly every prospective clients asks me about digital images but only about half talk about albums and prints.
What I do hear all the time is "ugh, I still haven't made my album" or "I have one picture from our wedding up but really need to go through them sometime."
Often, those weddings were 5, 10 or even more years ago!
Even after 10 years and hundreds of couples, I'm still always a bit surprised that nearly every prospective clients asks me about digital images but only about half talk about albums and prints.
Last week I headed out from Bend Oregon for family portrait photography with Robert, Carolyn and their awesome Vizsla, Tuko, up in Hood River and the Columbia Gorge area.
I have a special place in my heart for Vizsla's as our dog Amber was the best dog we could have ever had so I knew it was going to be a great time.
Add in that the Columbia Gorge area has a plethora of amazing places I was a very happy photographer!
We went straight to the epic shot at Wahclella Falls, which is in between Portland and Hood River.
I have a special place in my heart for Vizsla's as our dog Amber was the best dog we could have ever had so I knew it was going to be a great time.
Add in that the Columbia Gorge area has a plethora of amazing places I was a very happy photographer!
We went straight to the epic shot at Wahclella Falls, which is in between Portland and Hood River.
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