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My friend Chris and I have been on an architecture kick recently (and are pitching a gallery show in Baltimore on the subject), and last Sunday we took a walk through D.C. We started at Union Station, and walked over to Chinatown, taking photos along the way. This is the first real chance [...]

I went to visit my parents over the holidays in Naples, Florida. Here’s a few shots from the trip. The bad news was that my camera died on January 2nd, but the good news is that it gave me an excuse to upgrade to the Canon 7D. More thoughts on the 7D [...]

This past weekend, the Washington DC metro area was hit with one of the worst storms in the past decade or so. We got about 2 feet of snow where I live just outside the district. I took these shots during the middle of it.

And this was a nice way to get warm [...]

A few months ago, my good friend Brady at

My project that started early last spring has finally been completed. I was in the right place at the right time, and it landed me my first major publication in the Washington Times!

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The online version of the story can be found here: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/06/national-park-seminary-history-preserved/

I just realized that I’m working backwards chronologically with my photographs from Brasil. These shots were taken in a little town called Itacaré, in the state of Bahia. We arrive midday on a Friday, and spent the afternoon on one of the nicest beaches I’ve seen. During my breaks from taking pictures, [...]

Sorry for the brief hiatus from the site. I got married two weeks ago, so I’ve been a bit busy getting things ready, traveling to Brazil, going on a honeymoon, etc. I’ve started going through my photographs from my 3 week trip to Brazil. These first two shots are from a small [...]

According to Wikipedia, Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke, meaning “blur” or “haze”) is a photographic term referring to the appearance of point of light sources in an out-of-focus area of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, [...]

Last weekend, I went with some friends and family down the Tidal Basin in DC to see the cherry blossoms. I didn’t get any pictures of the cherry blossoms that hit me like last’s years masterpiece, but I did get some cool pictures of my friend’s with their daughter. It made me think [...]