The Decade in review

This is the oldest photo of myself that I have easy access to, it’s from 2006 and was shot by Marcy Echoltz at the Art Institute. This was taken in maybe Jan. or Feb. so it was close to mid-decade (give or take a year). Why was I looking for old portraits of myself and [...]

First Night Checklist

This morning I am busy getting ready to photograph the parade for First Night tonight and I thought that I would share with you a bit of the process that I go through before any shoot. As a photographer it’s pretty important to make sure you have everything with you so the first thing I [...]

Usefulness

I had to share this – I was reading through my rss feeds and saw a post on a site called fastcashphoto.com which is a site that I check often for the job listings they compile and also occasionally for the questions that people post. I’m a firm believer that there are no stupid questions – just [...]

Fish Stories

The big fish to the left here is for sale – well, not the fish itself so much but a large 20″ x 20″ print. Along with 6 other images by yours truly will be showcased at Stories an art-centric interior design show by Emphasis Interiors that will open on Dec. 31st during the First [...]

Holiday Rush

What a fun but exhausting week – here is a run down: Sunday was a build day at the Schmutz Lodge – Dave and I worked on constructing things for the 1st Night Parade. We built a camera that I’m wearing on my head during the parade while photographing the event. Monday was the first [...]

Light

I’ve been talking to more and more people over the past several months about lighting. Lighting in relation to displaying and creating art. Between the work that I’m doing with my business partner Dave (Schmutzco.com), the residency he is in (Distillery 4), and the folks that I am teaching photography to or talking to about [...]

Coming soon

I’ve began to work with an amazing interior designer who is going to feature and sell some of my work as fine art prints and will be incorporating them into shows that she is doing. One of these shows premiers on First Night (more info to follow). She’s asked for 4 pieces and they will [...]

Prague!!!

Being that the blog was down I didn’t get a chance to brag about my first international showing in Prague, Czech Republic. Myself and a number of other truly amazing Pittsburgh based photographers, (including some pretty big names like Teenie Harris) are showing at Galerie Deset (Gallery 10). I’ve got 5 pieces – all of [...]

Info Restored

I found about 10 free minutes and decided to restore the old posts. Enjoy!

Blog Loss

This is the first post on the new blog. The old posts are still out there in cyberspace but I don’t really have the time to move them over. I’m not too upset about it though – most of those older posts were related just to photography and I want this blog to more much [...]