When Filoli Turns on the Lights: A Holiday Portrait Session at Woodside's Most Beautiful Estate
Filoli in December is a different place entirely. The gardens go quiet, the house lights up from within, and paper lanterns line every path. A portrait session in the middle of it felt less like photography and more like stepping into something.
What Winter Tastes Like: Foraging for Chanterelles in the Santa Cruz Mountains
An hour into the Santa Cruz Mountains with a field guide and a container. What we found — and how to find it yourself — is the kind of thing that makes winter in the Bay Area worth paying attention to.
Mickey's Beach: Tide, Stone, and Challenge
Mickey's Beach is a tidal climbing crag in Marin — sandstone, crashing Pacific, and a window that closes when the tide comes in. The conditions make the photography. You just have to be ready when they open.
Cutting the Christmas Tree at Radonich Ranch
Nobody at Radonich Ranch is standing still and waiting to be photographed. They're in the rows of trees, arguing about height, dragging things around in the mud. That's exactly what makes it worth shooting.
The Via Ferrata to Trolltunga: A Portrait of Weather and Wild Light
The approach was wet, the exposure was real, and the fog closed in before we reached the top. Then it broke — for about twelve minutes. That's the window you plan for and can't predict.
Two Weeks in Japan: Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, Kyoto, and Nara with the Family
Two weeks in Japan with the family — Tokyo, Fuji, Kyoto, Nara. A 4am tuna auction, an overnight summit, and Fushimi Inari at dawn before anyone else arrived. What the trip actually looked like, not the highlight reel.