Buying the Perfect Photos of your kids

You’ve searched and searched for the photographer that has the vision you’re looking for…
You got the kids’ hair cut a few days before…
Maybe even got some new clothes for the event…
And now the day of the shoot has come, and you show up to meet your chosen photographer and it’s time to… let go, relax… [...]

Why I’m Stuck on Archivalability

Before I start this article, let me first clarify a few things. The term “archival” typically means that the materials (in this case, a photo), will last at least 100 years, if not more, before the first noticeable fading occurs. In modern photographic printing, there are basically 3 avenues here.
The first is traditional [...]

My Love for Black and White

From time to time I get rather inquisitive looks from people wondering why I produce the majority of my work in black and white when technological improvements have made stunning color display possible. In some ways I feel that black and white was lost in the sea of new color printing technologies. So [...]

Celebrating the Harvest Season

Hello dear readers. Tonight I’m publishing a new set of photos to celebrate my favorite time of year: fall. The series, called simply Gourds, is a set of 10 photos of gourds that I collected from local farms in the Wooster area. I’ve always found gourds to be the most interestingly shaped [...]

Documenting Kids

A lot of people ask how I get good shots of kids, so I figure I may as well spill some beans here for you.
First, kids move… a LOT.  So you’re going to have to take a lot of photos.  It’s digital, so you can trash the bad ones, so just shoot away.  As a [...]

Oilhead

I’ve posted a new addition to my collection of photos of manmade objects. This one is called Oilhead, and you guessed it, it’s the top of an oil well. These are found randomly throughout the farmlands of Wayne County. This was taken on a fairly clear day about an hour before [...]

What are those Broken Still Life photos?

I’ve been asked this a LOT. So I’ll provide a bit of an explanation…
The Broken Still Life series is, in essence, my attempt at reinterpreting some every day objects in our lives. Is there a meaning, method, or madness in how I go about it? No, not necessarily. It’s a few [...]