It’s been a while since I have updated my website or made any social media posts, so I thought I’d give a quick update on what I have been up to. All the tumult and disruption in this current season of life forced me to put the photography part of my life on the back burner. These photos seemed to fit the contrasting calm and chaos of how my 2024 has gone. What seems so calm and tranquil is quickly […]
I am happy to announce we have welcomed a new member into the land of Dub. Earlier this year Kimberli and I tied the knot and we have been forging our new life together with the girls. It’s been a season full of a lot of firsts and new adventures. The wedding itself was such an incredible weekend of connection and celebration with all our friends and family. It was such a blessing to see so many old and new […]
This week I was glad to see this beautiful book in the mail from Natural Landscape Photography Awards. Again, I am incredibly honored to have been included in such an awe-inspiring collection of work. I wrote about the selection back in November when the results were released. If you want to see the collection for yourself you can buy the book on their website (at least at the time this post goes live). Also, be sure to check their website […]
Waterfalls in Southern California are a very infrequent experience. Most of the natural falls here appear ever so briefly after a series of storms hit the area. But when we get a wet winter you find some scenes that seem so foreign to a normally arid region. Last weekend I took a break from preparing for my upcoming wedding to do a little hike in the Santa Monica Mountains with my brothers. One of my all-time favorite locations to visit, […]
The Year That Was It’s that time of year again, remembering the year that was. To recap my personal 2017 and give it full context we have to go back to where I was a year ago in 2016 as my beautiful wife was nearing the end of her three-year cancer journey. The image above I feel typifies my year. Out of the stormy few years I have had I am starting to see light. It’s not quite defined yet, […]
It has been six months since Heidi’s passing, a little more than one year since I went on leave from work to care for her, and two years from when we learned Heidi’s breast cancer had metastasized. There’s a part of me that feels like all those events were so long ago, and another part of me that still feels like this all happened just yesterday and I am still in the same bog I have been in for the […]
This week I was honored to have my picture from Polychrome Overlook in Denali National Park chosen for Outdoor Photographer’s Dramatic Skies Assignment. It’s true honor to be chosen by such a respected publication in the outdoor and nature photography. For those interested in the story behind the photo it was taken on the bucket list trip to Alaska my wife, Heidi, and I planned after she was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. As we were working out our itinerary I […]
I can’t believe it’s been a month since Heidi’s passing. In some ways it feels like it’s been much longer, and yet at the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday. I would say most of my interactions with people over the past month start with the question, “How are you and the girls doing?” An easy question and yet not easy to answer in a passing conversation. Usually I answer “OK” or “We’re managing” and then measure […]
Much like a stream forced to change its course to the ocean, the last couple of years of life have been filled with plenty of adjustments on our journey. This past week was yet another change in course. The company I work for, Rose Publishing, was acquired by Hendrickson Publishing. So what does that mean? On April 10th this year Rose will close its California offices and move to Massachusetts and I–as well as many others–will be laid off. However, […]