Honesty and Hard Work — On December 1st, I’ll be flying to Qatar during World Cup and I want you to come with me. A series like this is something I’ve wanted to do since staring writing on Medium, way back in the beginning days. I did something similar once with America At Work, in…

I think about photography more than most people. This doesn’t make me special, everyone has their obsession. I’ve known people who obsess on music, birds, paint, sunsets, vacation spots, dating, medical problems, liberals, pencil leads, open houses, poetry, baseball and bowel movements… for every obsessive mind and personality type, there’s…

When my business partner, Sean, picked up and turned on my Z9 for the first time, he blinked a few times. “This is different,” he said. “It just feels different.” Reviewers use words like “big,” “hefty” and “bulky,” which have negative connotations. They bemoan its inability to fit nicely onto…

My Path To And Then Away From Instagram — It’s more than just muscle memory that had my thumb reaching for the usual phone icons; for the inescapable worlds of social media. It was mental, psychological. I tried deleting the apps and only accessing through a browser, but too many times on the job someone wanted to connect on…

The best photography advice are things you can do over and over, at nearly any shoot you’re doing. The truth about photography is that once you’re in the profession, you realize that it’s enormously repetitive. You need very fast ways to bring creativity and uniqueness to your images on a…

My friend Gregg turned me on to the podcast, “The 10 Songs That Made Me,” where “artists and tastemakers are prompted to share 10 songs that marked meaningful moments in their lives.” Like anyone who loves music, I couldn’t resist an assignment like this. As a photographer, music swirls around…

It’s a thing on MidJourney right now that hands are a very difficult thing to render. They come around at times, but, like a cat, only when you’re not trying too hard. Perhaps the perfect little allegory for what has become of this year’s art fascinations: AI-generated images and Generative…

A Month in Romania and Italy, With the Leica M11, 21m, 35m & 50m — When I’m on vacation, I have a slightly different mindset these days. It wasn’t long ago that my day job was as an agency creative director, so when I’d go on vacation, I’d take the opportunity to practice my skills with a camera. I brought a lot of gear, not…