I got a new Canon 40D for my birthday. I was able to start playing with it early so that I could do some portraits. These are the pictures of my girls in their Easter dresses. They came out great. and the girls did a good job of posing. Read More → No Comments

In a photo class I took last year, I was told to take 100 pictures a day. This exercise did two things: 1) Made me a better photographer 2) Exhausted my children. My girls got SICK of having their pictur Read More → No Comments

We let our daughters dress themselves. Read More → No Comments

My family traveled to India to be a part of my brother Ben's weddin Read More → No Comments

These are pictures from my brother's wedding in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Amanda, were a lot of fun to shoot and they were g Read More → No Comments

This photo took a lot more work in the office than it did in the field.  It’s a 7 photo combination.  Then on top of that it’s a combination of an HDR and a regular photograph.  I did 5 versions before I found a sequence of pictures that worked.  One problem I had was that [...] Read More → No Comments

I recently saw an HDR tutorial from someone who is actually is doing it well.  His techniques and subtlety inspired me.  So while I was out with my daughters today I decided to try making an HDR from a single RAW file.  I also added a split tone formula that I created on top of [...] Read More → Comment (1)

I took my daughters to ride the free balloon ride at Orange County’s Great Park.  I thought I could get a good picture of them standing in front of the balloon.  Unfortunately after we landed they went CRAZY.  They could not/would not stand still with each other.  At best they would tackle one another.  This Read More → No Comments

I met up with a friend in Vegas this last weekend.  We were there for separate conferences.  We were walking through the Venetian and he asked me to take a picture of this hallway from an ankle view. Wanting to be a good friend I agreed.  What neither he nor I considered was that a [...] Read More → No Comments

As soon as the adoption finalizes I’m finding a photo contest to enter this into. It tells such a great story, not the story that actually happened, but a good story nonetheless. Read More → No Comments