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EnvyUs The Lion Tamer

I think one of the most important parts of avoiding stagnation is to constantly challenge yourself.  There are always so many ways you can find yourself surprised.  I am constantly trying to find new ways to shoot on dreaded sunny days, mid day, and all the other times you wouldn't really want to schedule a photo shoot.

Usually my solution is find some forest, or a canyon, but with EnvyUs we simply found where the lions like to lay, and shot under the one tree in my friends b...

Devi for Into the Wild

I have wanted to work with Devi for what feels like absolutely forever.  I fell in love with her work the very first time I saw it, and it just took a while for everything to come together.  This is partially due to my inability to get my plans together when I travel to her part of California, and also the intense difficulty I have finding places to shoot there.  I know this sort of sounds like saying the same thing twice, but I just really wanted us to create something incredi...

Penny for The Jungle

Even in the depths of winter we are lucky to be here in a world of Evergreen.  January came months ago, and I am of course still catching up on editing.  For a minute I was trying to limit my shoots to one look per shoot, but when the camera is in my hand my ambition of shooting often surpasses my ability to edit at least in a expedient manner.

But time is something I so rarely allow myself, and to be honest in order to maintain quality I think the only reasonable thing is to...

Rose Juniper and Shelby Mason for The Jungle

Flowers like fall colors are fleeting.  The Camellia tree blossomed, bloomed, and then dropped its petals like rain beneath the tree.  Our first 5 months here have been full of surprises and the rapidity with which all of this happened was shocking.  

Had I known that the time was going to be so brief I'd have scheduled a shoot or two everyday to capture as much as possible, but alas.  I managed a couple of shoots, but the day Rose and Shelby came over we were lucky...

Morgan Brooke for Into the Wild

It can be difficult to judge the passing of seasons.  Is winter over when we first see the sun, or the first plants shoot up with green.  I know that for my shoot with Morgan Brooke the light was deceptive.  The wind can whip here tearing down the valley even on bright days the cold is hard to work in.  

Morgan and I would shoot for quick bursts then run back inside to warm up.  Watch the light change a little and then run right back outside.  She's really...

Floofie in The Green House

I try to never take for granted how lucky I am to be able to create with so many incredibly talented artists.  My collaborators are so good that even when I feel like I am in a rut or struggling to figure out where I want to go with my work we still create incredible images.

Moving places means being presented so many options with where my work could go that I am overwhelmed by choice.  Do I work in the green house, the forest, build a new set to follow up Temperance?  I...

Penny Archer for Into the Wild

I followed a small game trail the other day through some holly branches and up the stream just a short ways where I found this beautiful opening.  The tall tree's branches covered in moss tilt down the slope towards the open light, but do not block it completely.  Its the perfect little window.  A beautiful place to stand and capture the depth of the forest.

I think I had overlooked it because my tendency is to always run deeper into the woods.  It is easy to forget ...

Ravyn Alexa for Into the Wild

I've learned to look up.  Half way through my shoot with Ravyn out of the corner of my eye I saw some blue jays dive bombing a tree not far from us.  Following their flights I saw that they were attacking an owl chasing it from tree to tree.  Its amazing how ferocious even tiny birds are when defending their nests.

Nearly abandoning our shoot my roommate looked at me like "you better not follow those birds into the woods and leave me here we are working." So we finished ...

Robin Mae for Into the Wild

I just love watching the natural world around me transform from week to week.  The weather has been fucking with me a little bit the last two months bouncing from heat and sun to clouds and rain and back.  The flowers, trees, and I are left riding the waves of growth and humidity.  The wonderful thing is with the sun we have shade, and so even on days that could be miserable to shoot I have places to find soft light.

I've fallen in love with this tree just outside our do...

Of The Roses (Salem) for The Jungle

One of things I love about photography is its ability to capture motion.  We have so many options with how we tell a story that in other mediums would be difficult, or impossible.  We can freeze time, show the strength of wind, the delicateness of fabric...we can float in the air.

That is magic.

Photographs are lies, magic tricks, the truth of the moment.  They say what we want, and then viewer hears something else.  

Aybaby Midnight in the Setting Sun

Sunset is relative to where you are standing.  Hours before it dips past the horizon it can touch your window for the last moment on any given day.  We have built ourselves little box canyons.  

Aybaby Midnight (Bixton) was kind enough to pick me up, and drive me clear across town so we could shoot on her incredible couch on my last trip to Vegas.  Light is such a fascinating thing for me.  Years previous I would have been traveling with strobes, bouncing them ...

Rose Juniper and Lillias Right for Into the Wild

I have been home now for the longest stretch of time I can remember in a decade.  Its may and last I left this place was early March.  I have been traveling so much for so long that being in the same place feels like a discovery I had missed.

For years in Philly change would seem to happen out of nowhere.  Moving so quickly I couldn't understand how the forest, and waterways had reshaped themselves, but the truth is all this reshaping had happened slower than I could per...

Paris Call for Into the Wild

Its incredible to me how green our winters have become.  The grey sky meets green earth, while still our trees are bare.  Its something I get used to until it leaves.  The changing of season here is just a changing of greens, but that change is tricky.  My most recent shoots feel almost confusing as now the deciduous forest comes out of hibernation, and the color of light transforms.  

I am still learning: earning the forest, learning to what extent color corre...

Shelby Mason in The Green House

Its almost weird to see these images now.  Hardly anytime has passed, but since Shelby arrived earlier this year for this shoot we have been so busy.  The green house I really just thought of as a place I would want to shoot when we first moved here, and now its a place I am trying to grow the majority of our food.

Empty tables have become covered in pots filled with tomatoes, peppers, greens, and berries I have grown from seed.  Our lives have changed in a way I just di...

Liana Pilar for Into the Wild

For the first time in my adult life I have a hobby other than photography that I devote time to everyday.  I wake, I drink coffee, I eat, I check on my plants.  Each day I watch for growth, check to see what needs watered, what needs light, what need moved to a larger container.  For all of my love of nature, I've understood so little of a plants life.  Now as I move through the forest I notice things I've previously missed: the first flowers of a tree pushing out from the...

Juno on Florals

Learning a new place is always the hardest.  Sometimes I know how things are going to come together others not so much.

The carpet in our new home is one of the things I immediately fell in love with.  Florals reminiscent of the Temperance walls, but patterns on a carpet, and light on the floor is not the same as a wall, and its actually easier than I thought to accidentally wash out all of that depending on the point of view I am shooting from.

The window light also c...

Share more work?!

So here is the deal.  I have always tried to do at least a little bit more of a blog post with each of my shoots either with where I am at in thinking about my work, or an individual shoot, etc etc

But lately I have been shooting a lot...I mean really a lot.  I did 8 shoots last week.  Between all the editing, and now my duty to ensure the blackberries do not swallow us alive, and photo shoots I've found that I have a little bit less time, and honestly regularly less ene...

Kelpie for Into the Wild

What a beautiful invasive plant we have crawling through our forest trying to pull down the tall trees.  When all other greens have gone brown for the winter the ivy stands out in the forest bright upon the bark.  I'm not sure if I will try to fight it, maybe one day.  But for now its not my highest priority.  To create with Kelpie among this Ivy in the middle of winter is a true dream.

We walked back into the deep woods where the last of the daylight didn't quite re...

Porcelain for The Jungle

An incredible golden piece in the golden wheat, Porcelain made her first trip down to Portland since our move, and despite coming down with a flu that pretty much left her glued to the bed, somehow she got up, ready, and out to the backyard where I kind of feel like we had one of our best shoots ever.

I don't know how she did it.  But here we are!

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Vaunt We Were Wanderers

I have fallen in love with this desert...seasonably.  I've made the mistake of being in Las Vegas during the summer multiple times in my life.  What can you do?  In my head I knew it was going to be miserable then I arrived and was surprised by how miserable it truly was.

Now I visit twice a year late fall and early spring, and its truly an incredible place.  The landscape of the mojave is just incredible.  The opportunities to shoot in canyons with b...

Dahlia Datura and Tazia Diana for Fauna

Its been 2 or 3 years since my last shoot for Fauna, so much has changed though, and now we have a forest that is ours.  A place we can explore, and shoot among the soft light under tall trees.

Dahlia and Tazia are my first shoot for this project at our new home, and while a forest presents a lot of challenges for capturing a moment it provides so much opportunity.  I lay in the pine needles among the ferns to shoot.  On soft soil even in the cold the Douglas
Firs pro...

Janice Griffith and Jasmine Grey for Into the Wild

I've taken to visiting the desert in the dead of winter.  The short days provide refuge from the mid day sun.  Soft light bounces across canyon walls painting colors we can not perceive until we click the shutter.  I'm hiking over cold Mojave sands in search of high walls or depressions in the sandstone cliffs that surround us.  This is a landscape that is difficult to show in its true colossal scale on its own.  But accompanied by Janice and Jasmine my job is easy. &...

Salem (Of the Roses) for The Jungle (snowday)

The forest was transformed by a snowfall for a few days here in Portland.  I had a shoot scheduled with Salem a couple weeks after it was supposed to hit, but she reached out to me ecstatic about shooting in the snow, which was perfect because I had had another shoot cancel after taking a look at the same weather report.

So Salem came over with pretty much the perfect piece to create something for the Jungle, and into the snow we went!  Despite the frigid cold she did some tr...

Tazia Diana, Kayla Coyote, Dahlia Datura and Vaunt for Into the Wild

All months are whirlwinds I guess.  I can't think of one that I would describe in any other way since I finished high school.  Back in January Tazia, Kayla, Dahlia, Ashley French (incredible photographer) and all of their partners came up to our new place in Portland to basically break it in, and find inspiration in this new place.

And we did.  In just two days I took over 2,000 photos.  We built bridges, suspended in the trees, shot indoors, outdoors, and places th...

Devin Willow in The Green House

When we arrived and saw the many flowers and succulents in the green house I knew the one person I absolutely had to photograph along side all the plants was Devin.  While Nicole and I have been pretty apathetic when it comes to growing plants in our home Devin kept so many lovely plants alive when we lived together in Seattle.  Her love has definitely rubbed off on us though, as now we care for more plants than we've ever imagined.

It was a magical day getting to photograph ...

Morgan Brooke for Into the Wild

The wind whips hard during winter here, so when the creeks banks aren't flooded from rain or snow, it is best to retreat just a little ways into the forest.  Not so far that we have fled the light, but just far enough that we aren't touched by the icy gusts.

Underneath one of my favorite tree's Morgan and I found this beautiful little beam of last light coming down the hill and illuminating the mossy branches.  I wanted to capture the contrast of the blues in the shade with th...

London Andrews for Into the Wild

We've been traveling across the world now for years.  Always looking places far and remote, but I've started to miss life on the road.  The America's have so much to offer from Canada to Chile and Peru there is no lack of beauty that we could be exploring.

London and I shot 2018's calendar in the PNW, and for 2019 we decided to use the same place exploring new locations and a different season.  Early fall in Washington state means summer, winter, fall, and spring are all ...

Tazia, Vaunt, Dahlia, and Kayla for The Jungle

Shooting multiple models is always a hard thing no matter how experienced everyone on the shoot is, but when it comes together its a magical moment.  Its all about getting each person into place, and then getting the expression right, and then each person holding that.

Its easier to do without faces, but I just loved how these came together with the back lighting, dresses, and forest this chilly winter's day.  

I was struggling at first to bring this composition togethe...

Lillias Right for The Jungle

Largely responsible for our move to Portland, Lillias should have been one of my first shoots when we arrived here, but it took two months to get her to come by during the daylight.  The days are short, so I can't hold it against her!  We had actually just wrapped up a planned shoot down in the green house (which will be coming later) when Nicole dropped a bag of clothing that she was planning on getting rid of in the room, and Lillias, Leo Velo, and Ravyn Alexa started tearing thro...

Sura in The Green House

I've never had a place quite like this to work in:  incredible light on days of heavy rain, safe, warm-ish.  Sura came over on a day where the rain was heavy and intensely cold.  The cold is rarely the problem when it comes to the models I'm lucky enough to work with.  Ask anyone and they will tell you its not the cold its the wind or wetness.  

So instead of killing ourselves in the rain we spent a comfortable bit of time shooting indoors, and then ran down to...