In the Summer of 2010 I was sitting at my uncle's kitchen table telling him that the year before I had driven straight through Utah to Las Vegas for a photoshop conference, but that this time I wanted to see more of it. My uncle lives high up in the Sangre de Christo's in a house made of straw.
He had me go out to my c...
Some first shoots you know are going to be the first of many! This afternoon on the creek with Rainey Dae was one of those. Her posing is absolutely incredible. Felt like I couldn't take a bad photo, and we shot maybe for like 45 minutes and I was like...
Well we got way too many and I have to edit these, so best we...
I've been trying to be proactive. The pandemic changed my life in ways I forget. I was shooting so infrequently that I was not really reaching out to people to work together. Every two weeks or so somebody would reach out, and I would have been quarantined to spend time with a partner...I didn't have a ton of time.
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There is something about the moment you take a photo of somebody and you know its the best photo you have ever taken of them. Its so thrilling the light the pose, the color the world around them. The spot I'm standing.
You can't replicate it because the world outside your door is never the same, and why would you? ...
Early spring in the garden with Yhivi, she's stopped by Portland to visit a couple of times. Enough that we've become pretty good friends, eaten soup, gone mushroom hunting. I'm so stoked that we finally got to take some really beautiful photos in nature. She's one of those people in the industry that I love bouncing aroun...
2024-07-12 01:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post
What a day what a day!
After years of following Erna, Nicole and I were so excited to finally have here visit us here in Oregon for a few days of creating! She came over early in the afternoon on a perfectly cloudy day! I was especially excited because the Rhododendron's had blooms a little early from the warm weath...
January 2020 I was in a crazy penthouse room in Las Vegas during AVN. My friend Penny had invited me over to photograph her and a friend together, and then told me hey I got this room for free you can come by and shoot as much as you want. I ended up doing quite a few shoots in that room, and I was lucky enough to meet Sier...
2024-05-18 21:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Before there was Iceland there was Olympic National Park. One of the very first places I fell in love with photographing, hiking, and just and camping. I've taken so many people to the most North Western part of the lower 48 to just experience what it is to be there. Deep in our only Rain Forest, it is cold, cloudy, it is...
2024-05-06 20:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I absolutely love how many people I have been able to work with over my career over and over again. I can't remember off the top of my head when Hattie and I first shot 2011 or so? We're officially moving past Richard Linklater's 12 years of working on Boyhood...lol.
It feels so nice to have an entire generation of p...
Last autumn I was lucky enough to have Kerry come up to work with me after having talked for almost 5 years. You never know when the stars are going to align for a shoot, so I try to always be ready and stay in touch.
I am so so so so stoked with how this shoot went. I'm in the middle of working on my next book rig...
Had an absolutely amazing shoot day with JL Brooks. We talked about all sorts of wild craft stuff, and I managed to convince her to give wine making a try! Not sure if I have shared much of my venture into homebrewing, but I've really gotten carried away with the hobby.
The past two months I've made ...
What a magical afternoon creating with one of the best models on the planet. These were shot just outside my front and backdoor in the garden, I absolutely love the late afternoon light in both spots, the way the green world in the background falls out of focus and the colors sit so intensely saturated.
2023-08-01 04:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It feels good to be creating in the garden again. Winter was rough
2023-06-17 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I chase the light around our property, sometimes in the deep woods, sometimes out in the open as the sun falls down. The sun is always setting somewhere be it set behind a tree, or falling down below the horizon.
2023-02-09 16:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post
What a lovely morning exploring the forest with Anoush
2023-02-05 22:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Lillias convinced me to leave the house back in the fall and head up into the mountains to visit a waterfall. The days are short and I was still a little run down from a covid infection the month positive, so we didn't make it all the way to the waterfall...but we still had an awesome shoot in the fall foliage. 2023-01-27 03:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Porcelain and I have been shooting for over a decade now, but we've really never done a full Into the Wild shoot until now!! She is one of the main reasons the series Flora even exists because of her ability to emote in front of the camera, but I'm so excited we were able to create these incredible images
I don't know if there will ever be another Temperance, but maybe I'm figuring out the beginning of it. I'm such a different person than I was when that series ended, even more so than when it began.
Space informs creativity so much, and back in Philadelphia the space outside didn't offer much in terms of inspiration. &...
I’m in production on my next big book. Feels stressful feels exciting. Feels scary. But I think I’m ready
2022-12-10 01:54:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Late spring snowfall and flowers was a bizarre backdrop for this shoot with Nox. Partially cloudy I felt like I was struggling a little bit to put the image in my head on camera. But it all came together
2022-08-18 01:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Since finishing my book I've felt like I'm at a cross roads with too many directions I can head. I'm plagued with indecision, while also trying to afford myself patience. I have time to take more than one road. I have time to explore different things at my own pace.
2022-08-15 01:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the course of putting my 10 year retrospective of Into the Wild together I found a ton of shoots that weren't for the series, that I had forgotten about, and in the spirit of getting completely distracted from finishing the book I sat down and updated the edits of some of those shoots...
Its wild how much your work...
2022-06-29 03:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Time is moving so quickly these days. I have a hard time remembering what happened when. Years ago I messaged Carina on instagram, and then even more years passed before we finally managed to plan something.
Then a month...months(?) ago it happened. I could look it up, but I'm writing this from the wr...
It’s a delicate flower trillium and one of our best indicators of the health of the forest. A flower with delicate roots, only capable of producing enough energy to bring itself back the next year.
A lot of people believe that you can not pick it. That to take one of these is to ensure that it will not return, and...
2022-05-21 01:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I love the blooming flowers of spring. The magnolias falling all around us. The first signs of life.
2022-05-19 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Documenting what beauty we could grow became one of the few ways @vauntastic and I could pull ourselves out of the helplessness that felt our whole reality in 2020. We did not yet know the plants well enough to know how quickly each one would come and go.
Some days we would look at a flower and think, tomorrow it...
This past summer was just amazing. I worked for the first time with Yung Succubus, who is just incredibly talented in front of the camera. We managed to create three completely different sets one afternoon in the forest, in the creek, and I can't wait to share them all with you.
2022-05-05 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
