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Floofie for Into the Wild

Morgan Brooke and Kirstin for Into the Wild

Exning for The Jungle

Verronica Divine for The Jungle

September: Admitting I have fears

Well I got the results from my MRI back on Wednesday and I would be lying if I were to say I wasn’t feeling pretty disheartened.  Honestly while my worst case scenario was that I would need surgery, my biggest fear was that there would be nothing that can be done, and while that wasn’t the case entirely I am running on diminished hope that I will ever be 100% again. 

Two years ago the pain had gotten bad enough that I saw a doctor about my knee who told me not...

Avina for The Jungle

Kyoto Cat for Into the Wild

One Shot with Nicole

My preferred way to shoot has and always will be photographing with the goal of creating one fantastic image.  I haven’t hit a point in my career where that is something that I can really do, and with the way things are on the Internet right now for most models a full set 15-40 images is more useful than one, and I owe my collaborators useful results for their time.

The rapidity of social media means artists in all fields feel compelled to feed the beast content at l...

Flora Rodgers for Into the Wild

Sif Black for Into the Wild

Paris Call for Into the Wild

Miss Patrish for The Jungle

Luna Laine for The Jungle

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Robin Mae under the Flowers

Some flowers last forever.  Some last for about 3.5 hours.

I felt a serious sense of urgency when the camellia started to bloom.  Nicole was out of town, the weather was hot, the clouds were gone, and I just really wanted to make a shoot happen before springs first flowers were gone.

Luckily Robin Mae came to the rescue, and despite the difficulty of the light we were able to create some photos that I just love.  Normally I shy away from sunshine, dappled light, a...

Lucy Art Model for The Jungle

I've watched this field transform so much this year.  Season to season the grasses grow, and fall.  Hemlock blooms, dies, and is replaced.  Its a magical thing.  We create trampled paths, small beds among the tall reeds.  Around us the grasses shake as animals unseen rummage for seed, or flee when they finally notice our presence.  I just love it so.  

Taking My own Advice

Ya'll August is here, and I must admit I have been struggling with the amount of work I have bit off for myself.  Moving to Portland has turned out to be truly incredible.  I am basically able to shoot, and create more than I have ever imagined, and this summer has been an explosion as far as the amount of time I am spending behind the camera, and as a result behind the computer.

I had a student in town recently and they were explaining to me that they were having a hard time...

Lillias Right in Sao Luis

My god friends, can you believe we have been on this Patreon journey for this long, and we are finally getting galleries!  That is right no more dropbox links (except for presets and photoshop actions).  I don't have it in me to go back in time and update the hundreds of posts I have done here, but going forward it is a whole new world!

That said I am just so excited to be able to share these galleries with you all a little bit easier than before.  

This shoot wit...

Sienna Hayes and Dane Halo for Into the Wild

Two of my favorite Canadians were visiting Portland, and the evening Dane and I were supposed to shoot I checked the weather to see that a rare and massive storm was coming through I mentioned it to Dane thinking maybe we would shoot the next day, and instead both Dane and Sienna were completely stoked to shoot in the rain.

Sooo I through a poncho on my camera, and we ran out into the rain.  It was the heaviest downpour I have ever shot in transitioning from rain to hail.  My...

Caelyx, Leema Lee, and Bruja for Into the Wild

I've been a sort of under the radar staff photographer for Suicide Girls for a couple of years now.  I was invited sort of last minute to participate in a Portland shoot-fest, and my schedule just didn't allow for it.  These events are pretty incredible, but the work load you can create from them is exhausting.  

I try to only shoot once a day, two times a week.  Normally that means I shoot 4 days a week, occasionally twice a day.  A shoot fest is usually a min...

Robin Mae for Into the Wild

On sunny days we seek the shade.  Small places where the dappled light falls behind us, and we can create where the sun falls softly.  I knew when we first moved here the creek would provide a place I would love to shoot, and as the temperatures warm up I am finding that to be the case.  

It had actually been hard to find a place where the water flowed slowly here in the North West.  The mountains feed many of the rivers or spring melt keeps them wild and dangerous. ...

Riley Saldutti for Into the Wild

I am always looking for new ways to see the forest.  Hiking to new places or the same place to see what has changed.  Some days the forest has remains the same, but the light has shifted.  Sometimes the forest remains the same, but I have shifted.  Often everything has changed.  I experience the same place a new, and both the model and I are seeing the same place as it is for the first time.

That is when I feel the most fulfilled.  Little shifts can result...

Casey Calvert and Nicole Vaunt for Into the Wild

I have seen so many places transform in my travels, but my most recent trip to Los Angeles was one I won't soon forget.  Normally I try my best to escape the city and head up the coast for my shoots, but Nicole and I went on a small scouting trip to see how Malibu looked after last years fires, and came upon a rather disheartening discovery.  All of the state parks I usually shoot in save for one was closed indefinitely due to the fires.  Place I have come to love will likely n...

Miss Margie for The Jungle

I feel like Miss Margie and I have been trying to shoot for years now.  We never managed to cross paths when I was in Philadelphia, and it would have been way easier for us to shoot, but this spring she found herself in Portland where I have been holed up for what feels like a life time.  

Even crazier to me is that this entire set was shot 8 steps outside my front door.  I wasn't actually sure where we were going to shoot, but when I went out to meet her I noticed the l...

Emma Starseed for The Jungle

I feel like I haven't set the camera down for months.  There is an event and then an event and then an event.  Our door is always open to guests, and there is rarely a lack of them.  This is not a complaint.  My favorite part of the work is creating the image in camera, connecting with somebody for a couple of moments, and seeing what the two of us together can create.

Emma came down for exxxotica to see the convention, and was kind enough to drop by for a little bi...

Sofia Rose for Into the Wild

Its been an incredible summer so far for photo shoots, gardening, and jam making.  I've been spending so much time outside that time has sort of lost meaning.  The days feel nearly endless all the way up her in the PNW, which is great because when winter comes, and I know it will darkness feels nearly eternal.  

After 3 years I know now that this bacchanalia of creativity will dwindle as the temperatures cool, and people are less excited about freezing their ass off for ...

Lillias Right in the Green House

I wouldn't be where I am if it where not for Lillias.  Its amazing now 1 year ago we were in Portland looking at this house because while venting about Seattle she mentioned how much cheaper it was down here in Oregon.  Just a few winter months ago we shot in this green house, that has been transformed to a home for my avocado trees.  Now inexplicably I spend about as much time tending to my plants as I do shooting and editing.  

This is not something I ever really ...

Zoey Island for Into the Wild

Every trip into the forest yields some sort of surprise.  A few weeks ago, maybe months at this point my perception of the passing of time is poor at best, Zoey came over to gather nettles and oyster mushrooms, and take some photos as well.  I'm always drawn to the way the moss gathers on each branch, and in that same way I am drawn to the way it gathers on us as well quickly in our passing.  

Its been 13 years since I read Walden, but I remember all the little things he...

Lucy Art Model for Into the Wild

The moss and cherry blossoms came just in time for my shoot with Lucy Art Model.  Well to be fair the moss is always here, but the cherry blossoms they were here and gone within just a couple of days.  Its been amazing how many little things are so fleeting here.  From shoot to shoot bits of nature appear and disappear often faster than I can keep up, but this first year for me is all about learning.  Documenting what I can, and figuring out what I can rely on enough to us...

Miss Patrish for Into the Wild

I live for these moments of calm.  The creek banks swell with winter rain, and snow from just a few inches deep to nearly 10 feet deep.  I can hear the racing water from my balcony at night, I walk down to the bank, and even as it roars there is such beautiful sound, and peace.  It was such a joy to spend one of these days shooting with Miss Patrish along the banks in the last of the snow.  She is one of the first people I ever worked with in the North West, and it is alwa...