This is probably the most expensive photo I've ever taken... it cost a ton of money to get us all to Hawaii and cost me a ton of stress making it happen! It has been 5 years or so since our last one and it's about time we get a new photo with Nolan actually [...]
They say astrophotography is the hardest/most technical form of photography there is, but I think children photography (especially your own) is way more difficult. It was a somewhat last minute planned shoot so we would have photos before his 3rd birthday, but I am still happy with the results. This age really is the best. [...]
Our good friends recently had a baby girl, who I offered to take photos of. Not my usual style of photography, but it feels good doing something nice for them. A ton of credit to her parents and my wife for doing most of the hard work to make this a success.
The family and I got to travel out to Tennessee to visit my brother and his family for Thanksgiving. So of course we had to do a small photoshoot. This is my favorite of all the cousins reunited.
Happy birthday to my second child, Dylan, who is now 7 years old! We ran down to Springview Johnson Park in Rocklin and used the same piece of railroad we found last fall when we did Nolan's birthday photos. It had been moved slightly since then, but was setup with the bridge nicely in the [...]
Happy 1st Birthday to my 3rd child, Nolan. This was sort of a last minute rush photoshoot, but I think we did pretty good. We even got a few decent photos of the other kids too.
I'd like to welcome my 3rd son, Nolan, to this world! For this photo, I used a rusty steel background I already had and then built a little bed out of barn wood that is sitting on a small cowhide. Really going for that rustic theme on this one.
A quick maternity photo shoot with my wife at Johnson-Springview Park in Rocklin:
For our annual Father's Day tradition of going backpacking we went to Caples Lake (I didn't do any landscape photography this time, but here is the group):
Happy 5th Birthday to my son Dylan! I've been thinking of how to make taking photos of my own kids more stressful and finally came up with the idea of shooting large format film and studio lights. I used a 150mm lens (50mm equivalent) and got everything focused and dialed in. I then had to [...]
Every few years I get roped into doing portraits of my family and here is the latest:
Every year or so, I force my family to hike up a mountain/wander around a forest/etc. for our family self portraits so that I can print a large photo to hang above our mantle. I'd like to say we were lucky this year in that the field for the photos was less than a mile [...]
I have so much respect for newborn baby photographers! I wonder if they are aware of all the other (easier) things to photograph?? All kidding aside, here is my new niece:
Here is a little sneak preview of some family portraits I did for my brother and his family in Auburn over the weekend.
Happy Birthday to my youngest son, Dylan, who is turning 3 year old. I had an old rusty sheet of metal with tons of character sitting around from another project that I thought would make the perfect portrait background. I put him in a blue shirt to bring out the blue in his eyes as [...]
Oh yeah, I occasionally do portraits for family when I'm forced to...
Since my website was hacked, I lost all the detail of my blog posts. However, this has been a very popular post due to its link on FStoppers and I thought I'd at least make the link active so everyone can see the photo. Writing our kids' names with sparklers has been our family tradition [...]
