Before we left for Brazil I stopped for a couple of days in San Jose to shoot with Okami and DatDeerDoe in a little Redwoods forest. Nicole was attending a summer camp and we found pretty decent tickets out of the Bay Area so I was stoked to get to spend a couple days with friends creating outside of my comfort zone ...
2018-11-04 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Our May/June trip to Europe was supposed to be our last trip out to teach in Iceland. With two trips happening so close together I had began to doubt whether or not I could keep the passion going for a place with so many repeat trips.
Then I arrived
The truth is, and this is something I say all the time. No ...
2018-11-03 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Mentally I get prepared for every destination differently. When I'm shooting in the desert I'm prepared for early morning sunrises, late sunsets, and chasing down little pockets of shade where I can the rest of the day under the cloudless skies. When I'm preparing for notoriously cloudy, and foggy places I figure ...
2018-10-17 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What are we traveling for? Sometimes its hard to put your finger on. You wake up early, board a flight, then another flight, then another, and another. You grab your bags, you grab a car, the car takes you hours away, you are unloaded and thrown into the back of pick up track at 10pm, and you fly down the br...
2018-10-15 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Summer's gone, but I of course am still working my way through a mountain of editing from shoots abroad and at home. I just got back from almost two weeks working in the desert of Nevada and California. I had 5 shoots, but really I spent most of my time inside editing.
When we got on the plane to Vegas I couldn't s...
2018-10-14 20:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One thing I have learned is that the flight to Europe will wreck me. When we lived in Philadelphia the first couple of days abroad were like a surreal fog. Now that we travel from Seattle that fog has become a muck that must be trudged through.
So to get ourselves ready for our Iceland workshop Nicole and I de...
Time is flying, and sometimes I don't really know what to say here.
Has it been over two years since I left Philadelphia, finished photographing Temperance, and moved to Seattle? I guess so. This home is no longer ours even though Philadelphia in my mind is still home.
Twice I photographe...
2018-10-04 22:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In just a few months we will be leaving our first PNW home and moving down to a place I feel like will give me and Nicole a lot more freedom to create and explore. I think I never fell in love with Pulp because it felt like I was investing into a series that could very easily be taken away from me.
Renting in Seattle we ...
2018-09-21 20:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Life becomes this state of fluctuations and then it's not. It's hard to explain something you've been doing for a decade when so little of it feels real. Travel is a strange thing.
You get home, you look at the photos you created for a long time, you reestablish the life you left. At first home fee...
2018-09-14 19:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I am on a boat heading up the Rio Preguiça thinking about too many things. Am I always thinking about too many things? Probably.
I have been reading Jim Harrington lately, and since I first heard his voice on an episode of Parts Unknown his words have echoed with me. "And to you my loves few as there h...
2018-09-03 23:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Up until now I have been regularly disappearing on you all to do the work that Nicole and I do. It's just part of the job. Life on the road is hard. Explaining a trip with a single post is even harder. So I want to try something new starting now.
How did I end up in Brazil? So many things have com...
2018-09-03 01:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are pretty crazy right now, but also it feels like pretty much the perfect time to a throwback to a fun shoot I did in the bay, that basically nobody has seen yet!
Why is it the perfect time? Because tomorrow I head to the Bay for a couple of days before I ultimately head to Brazil for three weeks to photogra...
Where does confliction come from when trying to establish a body of work? I struggled with Pulp for a while, and although I was very happy with many of my shoots for the series I had a hard time getting excited about it in a way I struggled describe.
Then I did a shoot recently that sort of put it together in my m...
2018-08-10 17:45:39 +0000 UTC View Post
What is time off? I try to leave myself a week after a big trip where I have nothing planned, but it never really seems to work out. Its amazing how easily a week will fill itself with opportunity.
The more I feel I need the time the more rare the opportunity. These are the unwritten and unknown r...
This industry can be magical in a way that is hard to explain. Often times I will find myself in a new county where I only know a few people, and then randomly I cross paths with people I have followed for years because just happen to be in the same time and the same place.
I have followed Ivory Flame since 2007. &n...
Four years of photographers, and another two years of editing, I finally launched the project I have been trying to perfect for way too long. I think as an artist its nearly impossible to know when something is ready, but I feel like this is as close as I can feel...nervous, excited, and terrified. I can't lie after ...
2018-07-16 19:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Traveling internationally to a place you can not really scout due to time constraints means relying on people you meet and stay with, and internet research. Valentina and I had both came to the same question when it came to nudes in nature in Ireland: "Why hasn't anyone shot in The Burren?"
Then I arrived, and we set out...
2018-07-14 23:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
You can't shoot in Vegas without the work being influenced by Vegas. I think its the light. You wait until the end of the day for golden hour, and you create with fervor until that light has faded.
For a long time I didn't like Las Vegas all that much, but I've come to love it...as long as its winter. Wh...
I first met Romi in New Zealand when I was a guest instructor on a workshop in New Zealand. I was immediately blown away by her enthusiasm for creating an image. Her excitement for not just her own images but the other models in attendance was simply infectious. Her presence elevated us all in the face of extre...
2018-07-06 22:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Every now and then I see a place that has not really me written all over it, but I just love it, and want to shoot there. This little bnb in LA was exactly such a place. If there is anything I'm not known for its 50's era locations with retro pin up aesthetic, but that could really be because I have never lived in...
2018-06-24 18:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In order to prepare for our Arctic Nude workshop this year Nicole and I decided to spend a couple of weeks in Europe before hand to adjust, create, and explore a continent we have largely neglected. We began our trip in Spain, and had some really incredible shoots.
I did not really know what to expect for our visit ...
While in Portland I think nearly back to FebruaryI had the chance to work with the incredible Rose Writing at Lumin Estate the fantastic studio I posted about previously. We spent a rainy afternoon shooting in warm water, and the soft light str...
2018-06-10 19:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finally home after a month abroad doing incredible shoots all over Europe. This is going to be an amazing month here on Patreon as I will be pushing through and processing a ton of work from London, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and Iceland as well as a few shoots I did just before I made my way to Europe.
We Were Wander...
2018-06-08 15:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I will miss France for a long time.
The smell of the Mediterranean.
The winding streets
the light we stood in with ciders in hand
the balconies,
the cheese, the cheese, the cheese.
Our time.
I will not miss the impossibly hard mattresses.
You can't win them all.
I had dreams of hiking to the bottom of Snoquamie falls and taking one of those iconic images of Eva or Nicole or both at the base of that incredible waterfall when we made our way up the pass for our shoot, but upon arrival we found that to be impossible.
I am new to Seattle, so I have no idea if I am missing something, ...
Southern Washington doesn't get its due when it comes to beautiful landscapes. The Columbia River Gorge landmarks are mostly on the Oregon side of the river, but if you cross the river, and drive just a little ways you can find equally as beautiful places that are infinitely less traveled.
Shelby was nice eno...
I have a forever love/hate relationship with the city of Los Angeles. I have never been a sunny days warm weather person. I want forever fall. I want forever spring. I live as close to this as I can.
Still there are places you can escape the heat, and it is there I took Janice for our second shoot. &nbs...
2018-05-02 11:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I lost an entire day as we crossed the Atlantic. We left the 30th and 18 hours later of travel plus a time change plus jet lag recovery I woke up the 2nd of May...I hope you all enjoyed your 1st. I missed it.
Nicole and I are spending the month bouncing around Europe for We Were Wanderers probably our last trip to Europe...
2018-05-02 10:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
"I feel like a leaf that has turned to lace
withered on the branch to wait for winters coming
but I don't live with any sort certainty
for what will come
Once and a while time stands still
Not for me
But still, I watch it happen
Shaky legs on the edge of cliffs while you climb
And I hope...
"Can we leave the pain somewhere in the fog?
Drop down over every edge
I've felt it fall from me through moss and crescent moons.
Cut ourselves a sickle from the sky.
Was there ever any ice
sharp enough for us to fall upon,
Or wash over?
I've left a lot behind
Maybe one day ...
