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Unique and creative pictures of life. The world through my eyes.
2017-07-18 06:14
Saturday night, I had the opportunity to go see my friend’s band play. He is the drummer, and the band’s […] Read More
2017-06-05 22:00
Over the past few months I have been focusing much of my time with my camera on street photography. Taking […] Read More
2017-06-04 19:39
On the 1st Friday of every month, downtown Phoenix plays host to what equates to a citywide art show. Many […] Read More
2017-06-01 22:53
A few weeks ago I linked up with another photographer that I had met on IG and we decided to […] Read More
2017-06-01 03:23
This past weekend Comicon made it’s annual appearance in Phoenix and geeks and nerds of all kind made way to […] Read More
2017-03-27 04:10
A friend of mine from work sings in a band from time to time and happened to be doing so […] Read More
2017-03-19 19:21
I have been taking my camera out with me on Saturday and Sunday mornings when I take the dog for […] Read More
2017-02-06 15:24
While I was driving across the high desert the other day, my wife was taking our puppy to the dog […] Read More
2017-02-06 01:55
I headed out to New Mexico this weekend to meet up with a friend from college and do some snowboarding. […] Read More
2017-01-28 15:39
I know it’s been a long time, so long in fact, that I doubt anyone is reading this. But if […] Read More
2016-07-17 20:24
I had a chance to go and shoot a buddy of mine and his new band, Whither is God, the […] Read More
2016-07-11 22:20
I have had this GoPro for a while now and really have not used it much at all. I don’t […] Read More
2016-06-18 01:04
I decided to start a new series about the wonderful traffic around my city. The idea struck while sitting in […] Read More
2016-05-24 05:51
The second shot that I took last night I had picture differently when I had gone out. I didn’t realize […] Read More
2016-05-24 05:26
Well, two weekends in a row, I decided that falling asleep early was the thing to do. So today I […] Read More
2016-05-22 07:20
Foiled again by not having a charged backup battery. My battery hit red last night, but I forgot. I had […] Read More
2016-05-21 04:58
Full disclosure, I was lazy tonight. I wanted to go take this shot somewhere downtown with buildings and lights and […] Read More
2016-05-17 00:25
After breaking my lens the other night, I decided that I shot of the cracked lens with the new lens […] Read More
2016-05-16 18:07
I have wanted to take this shot for a while, but every time I am at the pool, there are […] Read More
2016-05-16 05:51
First off, I missed out on yesterday due to a sudden illness. After dinner I got sick and didn’t get […] Read More
2016-05-14 06:24
I went out right before the baseball game let out tonight…bad decision. I was able to get all the way […] Read More
2016-05-13 06:17
Being limited to my portrait lens, my fisheye, and my stock Canon lenses, I decided that I needed to go […] Read More
2016-05-12 05:39
What else can I say about tonight, except, it was one of those nights. I had an idea for a […] Read More
2016-05-11 05:27
After spending a good chunk of last night and a good chunk of my day today figuring out my new […] Read More
2016-05-10 05:45
One of my favorite things about living downtown is the palm trees mixed in among the buildings. An oasis here and there is a nice contrast the the urban landscape. I decided to take a walk d… Read More
2016-05-09 15:46
Well, better late than never. Last night was a struggle. I was down to go shoot, I wanted to go shoot, I just had no idea what I wanted to shoot. I decided to hop in the car and drive around… Read More
2016-05-08 08:04
There was a Kenny Chesney Concert at Chase Field tonight, so I decided that I would head out around the end of the show and get some long exposure shots of the traffic. I ended up at CitySca… Read More
2016-05-07 06:52
After a long week, sometimes you need to just sit home with a bottle of bourbon and watch the world go by. I had one such week this week, and although I still have to go punch the clock tomo… Read More
2016-05-06 06:25
I decided to take a walk over to the lightrail station tonight to wait for the train. Not to go anywhere, but just to capture a moment. I got to the station which was empty, so I had my choi… Read More
2016-05-05 07:06
I’ve taken this shot a few times driving different places with different shutter lengths and I always like what I come home with. Tonight I decided to bring Hazel along for the ride fo… Read More
2016-05-04 05:58
Three nights in, and it is harder to get back into the habit of shooting every night than I thought it would be. At 9:30 I realized that I hadn’t even thought about were I was going to… Read More
2016-05-02 23:47
Today I decided to take advantage of the day off and go for a walk down by Tempe Town Lake. The word “lake” leaves a little to desire, but a body of water in the desert is a body… Read More
2016-05-02 08:02
I decided that it has been far too long since I have been out with my camera on a consistent basis. Don’t get me wrong, after 365 days of pictures, I needed a break. Over the last 2 mo… Read More
2016-05-01 21:21
I have been working on flexing my camera in different ways lately. I have actually been sitting on this set for a while now. A little over a month ago, we had our first pool party of the yea… Read More
2016-04-25 16:53
At the end of February, I completed a year long project to take 365 pictures. I of course took more than 365 picture over the course of the year, but stuck to posting one a day that was most… Read More
2016-03-23 06:13
A while back, I got a message from a guy about shooting his band. He hit me up last minute and even though I had been wanting to shoot a band, I had to bail. Yesterday, I got another message… Read More
2016-03-07 07:59
Meet Hazel. She is the model that I will be working with on my new series of pictures. I don’t have the full project mapped out in my head yet, but wanted to get her in front… Read More
2016-03-06 05:44
First night back out taking pictures since I finished my Photo A Day project. They have been having Paint PHX events all weekend so I headed over to the block party tonight to take some shot… Read More
2016-03-01 06:06
Tonight is the 365th post for my Photo A Day project. This does not mean that I am done taking pictures, however, I may not be posting a new picture everyday. I am going to start focusi… Read More
2016-02-29 07:38
I have been starting to get the hang of this camera twisting technique I have been playing around with. I decided to see how it would work out in one of my favorite alleys in town to shoot… Read More
2016-02-28 04:22
We went out to meet up with a few friends for dinner tonight. We hit up Cornish Pasty Co. and as always, I had to get a Mickey’s Fine Malt Liquor. After a long week of dealing with idi… Read More
2016-02-27 05:49
I’ve been looking at this island for a possible picture for a while now. I decided that with only a few nights left, I should hit it up tonight when there was a chance of some traffic… Read More
2016-02-26 05:04
I want to start by saying, this picture was taken on Monday right before the death of my beard. My beard comes and goes through the year, but this one was with my for a solid 3 months and wa… Read More
2016-02-25 05:56
I saw the steps up to this church door on my way home last night. I decided to run back over there tonight to spin some steel wool on the “front porch”. I set up and took my firs… Read More
2016-02-24 05:50
As each night goes by, and I wind down the project, I am equal parts happy to be done and bummed out that it is over. I am not going to stop taking pictures, but the every. single. night. th… Read More
2016-02-23 04:25
I decided that I wanted to get a shot of the city at sunset today. I decided to head up to South Mountain about a half hour before sunset to see if I could get some pinks and oranges and blu… Read More
2016-02-22 05:56
I have wanted to do the full Phoenix skyline as a planet since I got this technique figured out. Tonight I decided to try to make it happen. I decided to head south of town and climb up the… Read More
2016-02-21 08:18
While I was sitting at work today, I caught my reflection in my sunglasses and thought that with a cooler surroundings, it would make a cool picture. So tonight I started thinking about a pl… Read More
2016-02-20 06:05
Went to check out another bar in downtown Phoenix that I haven’t been to before. Valley Bar is another alley entrance bar that I have been by a few times. Every time I have by the plac… Read More
2016-02-19 05:44
I was getting ready to go out to spin steel wool tonight. I had no real location in mind, but decided that I would just take a walk and look for inspiration. As I was getting packed up to le… Read More
2016-02-18 06:06
This is not what I imagined when I went out tonight. This isn’t even what I imagined when I captured the image. I have been playing around with this lens twisting technique and I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-02-17 06:04
I went out tonight thinking that I was going to do another camera twist shot. I walked around for a while and snapped a few, but nothing was really catching my eye. I ended up taking some sh… Read More
2016-02-16 05:42
First off, there a bunch of things about this shot that I would like to change. Secondly, I think I did a damn good job taking this shot while taking a curve on the highway at 80 (I mean 65)… Read More
2016-02-15 06:42
Today I went up to Flagstaff, AZ to learn how to snowboard. I had tried it once about 15 years ago, and had no instruction. I basically fell down the mountain all day. This time, I had a bud… Read More
2016-02-14 07:28
With one of my friends in town, I had to take him out for a short hike. We decided to hit up South Mountain and hike around there for a while. We ended up in a canyon so I decided to take a… Read More
2016-02-13 11:04
If you have been following me for a while, you may have seen the outside of this spot a few weeks ago. Tonight I decided to check out the inside. One of my roommates from college came into t… Read More
2016-02-12 06:34
I have been wanting to do something with this bottle since I finished it off a few weeks ago. I was stuck on the idea of taking a picture of something through the bottle, but what? I started… Read More
2016-02-11 06:16
I headed out to do steel wool again tonight and ran straight into Suns game traffic. So i figured I would look for any random opportunities to capture something that “might not be ther… Read More
2016-02-10 07:09
I went out tonight thinking that I would go spin some steel wool somewhere, but not really sure. It also crossed my mind to take a picture of something abandoned in the streets (trash). Mayb… Read More
2016-02-09 00:40
I finally had a nice day off to go out into the desert get some shots. I have wanted to make this panoramic planet with a desert shot since I did my first one. Due to the weather not coopera… Read More
2016-02-08 23:12
I’ve been growing this sweet do out for a few months now and I like to call it my Mad Scientist look. After 2 and a half months, I decided that it was time to document it with a self p… Read More
2016-02-07 07:11
I went out tonight to meet up with an old roommate who was back in town. We had dinner and some drinks up in Scottsdale and by the time I got home, I was in no condition to go wander around… Read More
2016-02-06 05:24
I decided to go down to First Friday tonight to see if I could find anything interesting to shoot. I was also on my own for dinner so I decided to make my first stop the food trucks. I ended… Read More
2016-02-05 07:29
I decided to see what it would look like to wrap a panoramic shot the other way and see how it turned out. I decided the shoot one of my favorite graffiti alleys to get the panoramic. Due to… Read More
2016-02-04 06:03
I decided that I was going to fight the urge to do another “planet” and do something different tonight. I had to run an errand, so I decided to go a bit earlier than usual. When… Read More
2016-02-03 06:02
I hope you aren’t completely tired of my “worlds”, because at the very least, I had to do one at night. I wanted to get a different angle of the skyline than I did the othe… Read More
2016-02-02 00:56
I really wanted to go out for a hike and take a few desert panoramic shots so that I could make a desert “world”. However, the weather had other plans. It was overcast and sprink… Read More
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