Category Archives: Photo Stories

Photo Stories | Beauty Often Finds Itself In Interesting Locations

This was just a random find the other day during one of my mentoring sessions. [ identical settings, both photos ] Nikon D3 | Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G @ 62mm f/2.8 | 1/400s | ISO 200 | Manual

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Photo Stories | Traveling In Solitude

I’ve always enjoyed travel by rail, there is an element of poetry to it that you simply do not get with air travel.  The longest trip I’ve ever personally taken on a train was from Chicago to Los Angeles many years ago when I had a friend who worked for Amtrak who managed to get...

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Photo Stories | Going Home

Next month I calculated that Melissa and I will be in Portland 11 days. I think it will be our heaviest month of travel, and it got me to thinking of a photograph I took in 2008 after wrapping a commercial job in Indianapolis. For me as much as it can be stressful, I actually...

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Photo Stories | Solemn Hands

Have you ever worked for a company that just plain sucked? Well unfortunately before I started doing photography full time, I worked for a few pretty horrible businesses. Now I won’t go into any specifics here, but before we ended up leaving Seattle, Melissa and I took a chance on working for a place that...

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Photo Stories | Extinct

I have no idea where this was taken, somewhere between San Diego and Oklahoma City (I think), but that really doesn’t matter much. It’s a Velociraptor in the middle of nowhere! There sure are a lot of weird things to photograph on the roads of America. What’s even better is Melissa is afraid of dinosaurs....

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