Just outside my plane seat window I can see the engine gently highlighted by the full moon, and for the past 20 minutes I’ve watched the most spectacular lightning show illuminate the clouds and dance across the sky. In all my years of flying, I’ve never seen anything so beautiful (besides Greenland) at 35,000 feet. I can’t help but pause and ( Read more... )

So far this year:

Spain
Maryland
Atlanta
Palm Springs
Las Vegas
San Francisco
Big Sur
Mammoth
Iowa
Utah

Still to come:

Portland
Seattle
Syracuse
New York
South Dakota
Florida
Atlanta
Wyoming
Arizona

All work-related. With potentially more on the books.

Santacon is quickly becoming a yearly tradition for my camera and I. This year I attended it in its original home, San Francisco, and even convinced my friend LeAnne to tag along. Along with super cute sidekick Alli Eddy, we combined LeAnne's indifference of Christmas and her love for Halloween by transforming into zombie elves for the day (with ( Read more... )

The amazing Sunday Funday crew did a bang up job for their Halloween party this year, centering their theme around a Circus Freakshow. In true LeAnne fashion, "The Shire" was completely transformed and included important circus elements like the tent-like fabric, a giant paper mache clown, collected "wall art" found in a ditch somewhere, and--of ( Read more... )

A few of my favorites. theyz outta this worrrrld


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Years ago my best friend Aurora and I made a deal: when/if she got married I would be the photographer, and she would pay me $1 for the photography. So last summer when I got the tear-jerked phone call telling me she was engaged, I booked her immediately after I got my hefty $0.25 down payment. I know it was a bit of a stretch in her wallet to ( Read more... )

This year I celebrated my 25th birthday on the South Island of New Zealand. Traveling to New Zealand had always been a dream of mine, and thanks to my amazing father it came true much sooner than I could have ever afforded on my own. So on April 1st we landed in Christchurch and spent nearly 10 days driving around the South Island together, ( Read more... )

It's no big secret that I love watching bad movies. I actually PAID to see GI Joe last year, and I will happily watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop again. The other night I indulged in the 1969 Japanese sci-fi film "Attack of the Monsters" and bonded with Gamera, toy dinosaur (whose jets help him speed away at mach 33, but at mach 60 he can leave the ( Read more... )

I had the honor of being featured as "One to Watch" in the most recent issue of American Photo Magazine. The editors over there just sent me a PDF of the article, which was kind of them seeing as I have still yet to find a place in Juneau that carries it. I had a really pleasant experience working with everyone over there, in particular Aimee, ( Read more... )

I've been talking about this for years and have stopped consuming plastic water bottle almost completely thanks to my Kleen Kanteen reusable water bottle. Really excited to see this documentary (and not just because Kucinich is in it!):

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For more info, go to their website: Tapped