As the Christmas season nears, my good friends were looking to update their family photo for a Christmas card they distribute each year. Although Arlington is a very urban area, their goal was to get back to nature and make a photo free of urban clutter. As I’ve mentioned before, Arlington provides its...
Category Archives: People
Old Skool Filter
I was digging around in the archives this evening, looking through folders and folders of negatives, contact sheets and 8×10 prints. While so buried, I thought about the newer generation of photographers who will only have grown up on digital cameras and Photoshop and it made me a little sad to think that they...
Abby in the Park
This has been a long time in coming. Way back on a frigid January day, my friend Abby, her husband Matt and I went down to the local park for a late afternoon shoot. Did I mention it was cold? Freezing cold. I had on two jackets, while Abby was wearing a...
The National Forum on Children and Nature
An article by David Derbeyshire in the Daily Mail explores “How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Four Generations”. After reading that, it got me thinking about how far I roamed as a kid and now how far do I let my own roam. While they’re still young, I wonder just far...
Heels Over Head
At the end of summer, Arlington hosts a music festival called Planet Arlington and for the past couple of years our family has walked down to the event. While this post is not about the festival, the following come from our evening spent hanging out with our friends at the Netherlands Carillon.
My little subject here...
Kodak American Greenways Awards
Recently, one of my favorite not-for-profit organizations, The Conservation Fund, asked me to come photograph the Kodak American Greenways Awards ceremony, an event that they hold every year in conjunction with Kodak and National Geographic celebrating and honoring individuals and organizations who have dedicated their time and energy to the creation and expansion of America’s...