Capturing Beauty

Today I want to take a few moments to share my approach to shooting portraits; with my second article delving further into why and how I shoot. Capturing a portrait well takes much practice and study, and mastery over the lighting. But the real key is in the subject of the shot, the person. “These came out…

This is the one about me

Often people ask how long I have been a photographer, or what got me into it. While my proficiency in landscapes and portraits has improved much over the last few years, the back story of what got me into photography is a much longer one, and very close to my heart. It is hard to…

The Guler Ice Cave

The History The volcanic legacy of the Pacific Northwest has left a landscape riddled with lava tubes. Remnants of past eruptions, they serves as conduits for flowing lava while the flow around them cooled and hardened. After the lava flowed out of the tubes, a massive network of caves was left behind in the Gifford…

The Kent Homestead Horror

It was an overcast day in March when we first spied the old homestead, sitting abandoned along the road side. I was out scouting with a friend of mine for a location to shoot the Milky Way this summer, and the homestead promised to be an ideal location. The outbuildings where slowly deteriorating, and the house…

Ghosts of the Galaxy

Nothing pushes a camera’s sensor more than the broad dynamic range of a sunset, or trying to capture the soft glow of the Milky Way rolling overhead. The sensors in modern cameras allow us to capture light and color in ways never before possible. Digital cameras allow us to fine tune exposures in the field,…