Children’s Portraits | Harper Turns Two
I photographed Molly 2 years ago when she was 9 months pregnant on a Sunday afternoon.Two days later baby Harper popped out of the belly and into the world. Although I have photographed her a couple of times I wanted to post an update now that she just turned two. Harper loves playing “Where’s the baby” with [...]
Seattle Children Portraits | Ema
It has been a while since I made a portrait of Ema and she looks quite different from the last time. We were out on a boat in Lake Union and I made some like the one below, of Ema with her sister Claire and friend Yasmina visiting from Europe. Then Ema went down below [...]
Great Wedding Photography Portrait Secrets
Coming from a photographer you might expect this piece to be about having a great background to the photo like this one on top of Crystal Mountain, Washington, with Mt. Rainier in the distance. Or how to get people to smile with a witty joke. Instead it is about how to get the bride and [...]
Cannabis Crusader | Editorial Portrait
For an assignment for The Chronicle of Higher Education last week I photographed Sunil K. Aggarwal, above, who is in his final year of an M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. They were running an article on him because of his efforts to convince the American Medical Association to help get marijuana reclassified as [...]
Duff McKagan – Editorial Portrait
Recently I photographed the legendary bass player for Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan for Playboy. The Seattle native is writing a column called “Appetite For Investment” financial advice for Playboy.com readers. I made this photograph outside the Seattle climbing outfitters shop, Feathered Friends, where Duff was shopping for some warm clothing and sleeping bag for [...]