I recently started the Black and White Dollar Portrait (BW$P) Project. The gist is, I will offer anyone who asks me for money $1 in exchange for their portrait. Every portrait I take will be converted and processed in black and white. This project is a spin off of Thomas Hawk’s $2 Portrait Project. Meet […]

Description: As a little kid, I was always fascinated by pinwheels.  When I see one or play with one these days, I can’t help myself but smile and remember my childhood and remember how simple life used to be. On a photographic note, I’ve always been obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge (who isn’t).  It’s […]

Description: My favorite images are the ones I take and think to myself, this looks interesting in theory, but I don’t think I’ll end up processing or publishing it.  Then I get home and look through them and I get a nice surprise.  This was one of those shots.  The yellow of the exit sign […]

Description: Believe it or not, I only took one exposure of this shot.  When I saw the scene, I was intrigued, however, I couldn’t really get the angle I was looking for (so I thought).  All the cars in the road were in the frame every which way I turned the camera and for some […]

Description: While out with Thomas Hawk during our lunch break, we explored Hunters Point. After walking nearly a mile into a mostly deserted area, past bio-hazard signs and other keep out, restricted area signs, we finally reached our destination. In order to get into the building, we had to “build” a ladder in order to […]

Description: This image was captured at the first corporate event I was asked to shoot.  I was specifically hired to capture images to be used in future marketing materials.  This particular shot is of one of the caricaturist that were present that evening.  The full set from the evening can be viewed on Flickr. Location: […]

Description: Taken at an engagement session I did a few months ago at the Wilhelmina Garden in San Francisco.  While processing this picture in LightRoom (as I do all my pictures), I attempted to create an antique, aged feeling by muting the colors without losing the underlying concepts of “new” and “beginning” by adding contrast […]

I recently started the Black and White Dollar Portrait (BW$P) Project. The gist is, I will offer anyone who asks me for money $1 in exchange for their portrait. Every portrait I take will be converted and processed in black and white. This project is a spin off of Thomas Hawk’s $2 Portrait Project. Meet […]

I recently started the Black and White Dollar Portrait (BW$P) Project. The gist is, I will offer anyone who asks me for money $1 in exchange for their portrait. Every portrait I take will be converted and processed in black and white. This project is a spin off of Thomas Hawk’s $2 Portrait Project. Meet […]

Description: The City Lights Bookstore is one of the few remaining fully independent bookstores in the nation.  It was also the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore and has been declared a “Literary Landmark.”  As I walked by the bookstore during this Monday night photowalk, I realized, over the past 8+ years of living in San Francisco, […]

Description: Taken during Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk a few weeks ago.  I must have spent nearly 5 minutes taking multiple versions of this shot and then possibly another 2 hours processing the 10+ exposures.  Sometimes when I shoot, I don’t have a set goal or vision for an image, however, for this shot, I had […]