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I spent my summer rewriting a free guide, which sounds considerably more glamorous than it was. The reality involved a lot of sitting at my kitchen table with coffee that kept going cold, moving twelve items around, and occasionally saying things out loud to my laptop that I would not repeat here. The guide is […]

There is a frame from this shoot I keep coming back to. Two friends on a picnic blanket, matching corduroy caps, ponytails pulled through the ribbon ties. One of them has turned to say something and the other is mid-laugh. Not the posed kind. The real kind, the kind no photographer can direct, only catch. […]

Every few months, Mari texts me the same way. Not with a full brief. Not with a mood board or a rundown of what she needs from me this time. Just something close to “ready when you are.” A few times a year, for the past 2 years, a box arrives on my doorstep, filled […]

When Ivette and Justin first reached out about headshots, neither of us knew we were starting a months-long project. That’s usually how the best ones begin. They own Val Vista Pharmacy, an independent, family-run pharmacy in Mesa. Husband and wife, building something personal in an industry dominated by chains with fluorescent lighting and forty-foot signs. […]

You know that feeling you get when you walk into a room and immediately know you belong there? Not because someone handed you a lanyard and pointed you toward the registration table, but because the energy says so. Because the people say so. Because the whole day was built on the premise that everyone in […]