Photography is my passion and has been since I was a child carrying around my father’s Minolta XD-11 or my mother’s Olympus Stylus. Rain, snow, or sunshine, I love exploring new places and every moment of the day I’m – consciously or not – looking for that next great composition or thinking about my next project.

Originally a college attendee as a dual chemistry/physics major, I dropped out after three weeks and returned to my hometown in Ohio. In 2009, I began writing a new screenplay and four months later I was directing my first feature at the age of 19.

During the shoot, I became interested in the digital video, and shortly thereafter digital photographic, process. The technology – from sensor design, to lens optics, color grading, and everything in between – was fascinating to me. After the shoot wrapped, I invested in my first digital camera – a Canon T1i with the humble 18-55 kit lens.

Over the next few years, I worked a number of screenwriting jobs as well as on film/commercial sets while learning and practicing photography on the side. My lifelong fascination with technology – particularly mechanical technology – led me once again back down the path of film photography. Except this time, I wasn’t just using them – I was tearing them apart, learning how they worked, and eventually learning how to fix them. Fixing/reselling cameras and lenses later became a significant source of my income for a number of years. I’d wager there are few other people on the planet under the age of 35 that have seen (or worked on) as many different cameras and lenses as I have; it wasn’t a hobby or passing interest… it was a full-time obsession.

And here we are.

While I enjoy and practice many genres of photography, I specialize in fine art/still life, nature, portraiture, and product photography, as well as both commercial and narrative video work.

This site serves a number of purposes for me: 1) an outlet to promote my work and services, 2) a channel to organize, write, and funnel my thoughts – invaluable to me as a longtime writer, 3) hopefully engage with other members of the photography community, 4) writing reviews occasionally, which goes back to points #2 and 3, and 5) to encourage my own artistic experimentation and growth. Having a conduit to formally catalogue one’s opinions, projects, and general thoughts is quite constructive and encourages further learning.

So, consider this a public diary of sorts.

Please contact me if you have any questions or comments about my services or questions in general – or if you just want say hi.

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Some random facts about me….

• 10 Photographers who I admire and who inspire me: Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothea Lange, Daidō Moriyama, Nick Brandt, Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sebastião Salgado, William Eggleston.

• 10 Directors I admire and who inspire me: Billy Wilder, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Joel & Ethan Coen, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Sarah Polley, Andrei Tarkovsky, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa.

• 5 Favorite Books: “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” by Herman Melville, “The Shining” by Stephen King, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë, “Blood Meridian or The Evening Red in the West” by Cormac McCarthy, and “The Golden Egg” aka “The Vanishing” by Tim Krabbé.

• 20 Favorite Films: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The Hustler (1961), Persona (1966), The French Connection (1971), The Last Picture Show (1971), Taxi Driver (1976), Paris, Texas (1984), The Vanishing (1988), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Unforgiven (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Clueless (1995), Magnolia (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001), In the Bedroom (2001), Away From Her (2006), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Social Network (2010), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

• Favorite Digital Stills Cameras: Overall: Nikon D700 from 2008, still one of the best DSLRs ever made. Newer: Nikon Z6/Z7 because of their best-in-class lenses and the most seamless transition from DSLR to mirrorless ever produced. Compact: Ricoh GR/GRII for its world-class optics, fit-in-a-jeans-pocket size, and maybe the best ergonomics of any digital camera ever made.

• Favorite Film Camera: SLR: Nikon FM3A for its great features and unbeatable build. Rangefinder: Leica M3 for its sterling mechanics and the brightest, largest, most pleasant rangefinder to this day. Compact: Minox 35GT for its incredibly tiny construction, lovely lens, and embodiment of stealth. Medium Format: Hasselblad 501cm for its top-notch Swedish construction, world-class Zeiss lenses, perfect handling, and modularity.

• Favorite Digital Cinema Cameras: I love the new BMPCC 4K and 6K cameras for their amazing image quality and packing the features of a $5,000 camera into a $1300/$2000 body. The original Blackmagic Pocket will always have a place in my heart - despite its many flaws - and the Digital Bolex D16 (RIP) produced some of the finest footage I’ve seen to this day. Output from the original Arri Alexa and Alexa Plus 4:3 also remain among my very favorites.

• Favorite Lenses: Vintage: Voigtlander 180/4 APO-Lanthar for its unbelievable compactness and amazing quality. Modern Manual Focus: Leica APO Summicron-M 50/2 ASPH for its stunning clarity and benchmark IQ. Modern AF Prime: Nikkor Z 50/1.8S for its reasonable size, near Otus-level performance, and Zeiss-like microcontrast. Modern AF Zoom: Nikkor Z 14-30/4S for its superb IQ, super wide range, and optics designed to play nicely with filters - all packed into an unbelievably tiny package.

• Bucket List Camera: There are many but the Leica M6 TTL Titanium, Hasselblad XPan II, and Nikon F2 Titan are probably at the top.