Who Am I?

I love to read, but miss me with nonfiction. The sword fights and dragonback adventures of high fantasy are where I escape to most often. I grew up with Eragon and Saphira (read the Inheritance Cycle if you haven't) and still hold it near and dear, but lately I can't put down series like The Stormlight Archive, Red Rising, and Mistborn. When I'm not curled up in a lump of blankets, reading with my cats, I'll be out in my yard doing my best Ciscoe Morris impression. I obsess over rock placement, the local bugs and birds drawn to my plants, and the budding leaves on the Japanese Maple my wife and I planted as a timestamp of our wedding. I flit from one hobby to the next, learning how to cook, landscape, tackle carpentry projects, practice interior design, and other random interests that I've since forgotten.

I shoot in a controlled studio when I need to, but spend as much time as possible gathering lifestyle imagery in the wild. I love to lean into the dark and moody vibes of the PNW with my editing, but am a sucker for pushing the saturation on oranges and greens to remind myself of autumn larches and the desert. I build detailed sets with props and lifelike faux-flora, or I step into the local forest to find the perfect patch of moss to display a product. I infuse imagery with my goofy personality, or keep it crisp and clean to showcase minute details. I take photos of people, places, things, make stop motions of burritos in the water bottle holder of a hip pack, and film videos of my wife in a sasquatch costume to launch new candles. Variety is the spice of life and I like to overseason.