Category archives: Personal
My Visit to Ilulissat Greenland
- This November, I had the opportunity to travel to Greenland to photograph a couple’s portrait session. I had actually been wanting to get to Greenland for a while for a few different reasons: Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my very favorite movies and I love the footage it captures of Greenland’ [...]
California | Valentines Day in Death Valley
- Yesterday, I had a little Valentines shoot. Just me. I boondocked in the middle of Death Valley. I woke up for sunrise, a rare event for me, and hiked up to Zabriskie Point. Talk about otherworldly. I'd been hanging in Death Valley for a few days, but I still haven't had enough of all the crazy sand f [...]
Utah | Snowy Devils Garden Hike in Arches National Park
- I have never been to Arches National Park in the summer, but I imagine that this winter snow adds a whole lot to these red landscapes. I think this Devils Garden area in the Southeast section of the park was the snowiest section we encountered. This loop goes 7.8 miles and passes nine separate arches- Lan [...]
Utah | Sun Flares and Night Skies through Windows at Arches National Park
- As you might have gathered through my last post, I am pretty smitten with Arches National Park. I had never been before, but this place was blowing my mind. The giant red rock formations seemed just impossible. It was like walking around in another planet created by Dr. Seuss. Driving around Arches Nat [...]
Utah | Sunrise Hike at Delicate Arch
- I’m just going to be honest- I am not one of those photographers who catches sunrise every morning. Not even every month. This is probably one of only a few times each year that I do wake up for sunrise. I only save these occasions for when I think it will be absolutely worth losing sleep over. And this h [...]
Colorado | Rock Scrambling at Settlers Park in Boulder
Boulder is a pretty cool little place. I say little, but actually the city was much bigger than I expected it to be. Like, it was a legit real city, with all the big stores you could ever imagine, but it also had all the cool independently owned coffee shops I would ever want to chill at. Then it was surr [...]
Colorado | Hiking and Skiing Estes Park
- I am so thankful for Laura and Oakley and their friendship. I first met these two a couple years ago when I photographed their wedding in Asheville, North Carolina. About a year after they got married, they decided to move to Estes Park, Colorado right outside of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was about [...]
Slow Exposures and Arches | Bisti Badlands, New Mexico
- Last year I traveled to the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico. You might recall that crazy shot taken under the stars. Check out my instagram if you haven’t seen it. It’s pretty epic (if I don’t say so myself). Well, from a photographer’s standpoint it’s actually so-so. I’ll get into that later. It was one of those nights [...]
Colorado | XC Skiing Eldora in Nederland
- When I came to Colorado and saw all the snow- I started researching Cross Country Ski trails right away. I hadn't actually been cross country skiing in quite a while, so I wanted our first trip out here to be a pretty easy one. After all, the Colorado elevation can be a little intimidating. I found a ski [...]
Colorado | Hiking Bear and Dream Lake in RMNP
- During my time in Estes Park, our friends Laura and Oakley told me how lucky I got with the snow and the weather. The Colorado Rockies had more snow than usual for this time of year, and the typical winds that blew over the mountains had come to a halt, leaving all the trees coated in white powder. It was [...]
Colorado | Boulder Flatirons Hike in Snow
- I first came to Boulder to scout out the Flatirons for an engagement session I was shooting there a few days later. I had done some research online and came across the Flatirons as a very scenic yet easy hike. Doing this hike for the first time, I didn't know quite what to expect, but I was very happy tha [...]
Iceland |My Kuku Camper Van Experience
- This past May, I had the wonderful chance to visit Iceland for the first time. I was actually going there to photograph a couple of weddings, but took the chance to spend a little extra time exploring the country. In doing my research, I knew I wanted to try camping in Iceland- both to see more of the nat [...]