Eight Days on the O Circuit: What It Looks Like to Bring a Photographer to Patagonia
Eight days. 130 kilometres. One client who wanted the full O Circuit documented and trusted me to keep up. What it actually looks like to bring a photographer into the Patagonian backcountry — and what we came back with.
Patagonia O Circuit: What I Wish I'd Known Before Hiking Torres del Paine
The O Circuit is one of the great hikes — and one of the more unforgiving ones if you go in underprepared. Hard-won notes from the full loop: gear, refugios, pumas, Gardner Pass, and everything I'd do differently.
Tomales Point Trail in Spring: Wildflowers, Wildlife, and a 9.6-Mile Adventure at Point Reyes
Tomales Point in spring is 9.6 miles of poppies, tule elk, and uninterrupted Pacific coastline. Most visitors turn back at the first viewpoint. Here's what's waiting at the end — and how to get there.
Dumbarton Bridge Shoreline Trail Personal Lifestyle Session
Most people drive over the Dumbarton Bridge without a second thought. The shoreline underneath it is one of the most photographically strange locations in the Bay Area — rusted infrastructure, tidal flats, graffiti, and a sunset that turns the whole bay orange.
Coastal Beauty: A Full-Day Cycling Adventure on 17 Mile Drive
Twenty miles of cycling on 17 Mile Drive, from Pacific Grove to Pebble Beach and back. Changing coastal light, wildflowers on the Monterey Peninsula, and a couple who just wanted their day on bikes documented properly.
Every Flower in the Garden: A Spring Portrait Session at Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto
Wisteria. Ranunculus. Apple blossom. Calla lily. Gamble Garden in late March gives you a different backdrop every twenty feet. We moved through all of them — and one frame stopped the session cold.
What to Wear for Outdoor Photography Sessions in the Bay Area
The question every client asks, answered properly. Colors that work in natural light, patterns to avoid, how to dress for specific Bay Area locations, and the one outfit mistake that shows up in almost every session.
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.