Brad James CD art

One late summer evening last year, I shot the CD art for up-and-coming country music artist Brad James. We chose a field in rural Stoney Creek, Ontario. The field was perfect because of the lonely tree on the horizon, with the sun setting behind it. After some lengthy...
Ana’s profile

Ana’s profile

I did a portrait shoot with Ana the other day, to take some photos for her personal use and for use as profile pictures on social networking sites. As with all of the portrait shoots I do, I try to get a versatile range of images to illustrate the many different but...

Red tree winter

Laura and I are continuing to shoot our series of photos depicting scenes from her inner world, like the ones we exhibited at the Birth Your Dreams exhibition in August. We work well as a team. She comes up with these brilliant and beautiful concepts and I refine...

North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival 2010

Every year I head down to Carrboro, North Carolina for the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, hosted by my good friend Zach Ward and his Dirty South Improv Theater. The festival has been around for 10 years now, and has grown immensely in the four years that...

Prevailing Winter

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a big fan of winter. When the snow starts to fly, I go into hibernation mode. I used to ski, which made snow somewhat tolerable, but I tore my ACL while skiing in deep powder in Squaw Valley, California. That did nothing to...

Soggy Cheerios features Father Time

The Soggy Cheerios blog, which focuses on the world of art and design, did a brief feature of my photo of Ron the Mountain Man. The title of the Soggy Cheerios feature was Father Time, and I admit I never even thought of that interpretation of the image! But, it does...