My boy Walker

It has been a long time since my last post and with good reason. My wife gave birth to our first child 3 weeks ago and so naturally our lives over the last 3 months have been centered on preparing for and tending to our new bundle of pooh... I mean joy. At any rate, I've compiled some images that I've taken of Walker along with some other stuff representative of my current head space to help break it up a bit.


Gina at 38 weeks looking fabulous.


We did a fun shoot to commemorate her prego bod.


I shot this from the roof of tower 44 at Park La Brea the evening before the contractions started


Our cats have no idea whats to come




This is the sunset on Toes beach the evening that Gina had her first contraction


This is not a contraction... just a cool pic


Okay lil man, seriously... get out



Now, if I showed you photos of Gina having contractions, which I did shoot, she'd probably divorce me so we'll just skip right over that 30 HOURS! and get to pics of the boy




Walker and mom roughly two hours after he arrived looking totally blissed out and in love


The midwives are preparing to take the boys weight.



8 lbs 8 ozs! Much better than 10 lbs 8 ozs which is what I weighed upon birth. Needless to say,
this factoid had Gina a bit worried


"What in gods name is going on! " says Bella who stayed with us in the room through all of it. Good kitty! Where's Bo you ask? He bailed out at the first contraction. Nice Bo, real nice.


Ginas mom came to visit and help a week after he was born.
She was such a great support and really helped us make the transition.


Walkers yawn face is my favorite next to his smily gas face


Out... he sleeps like I do, furrowed brow and all


Its hard to tell from this image but he's got giant feet!


Baby's first headshot


Just the other day Walker got to meet his new pal Farrah Ivy. Our dear friends Phinny and Andrea gave birth to Farrah just five weeks earlier.


This is what he looks like in the rare moment between sleep and fussing


Walker started his fitness regimen yesterday and this morning he was very excited to show us the results.

Not long now before I start dressing him up in ridiculous costumes for photo shoots!

My Whitney Expedition

About 2 weeks ago I went with family, my sister and a group of her coworkers to the eastern sierras to attempt to hike Mt. Whitney in a day. The plan was to go up a few days early to acclimate and enjoy the great outdoors. I've put together a "brief" photo report of our trip and the amazing places we saw.


On the first of August we headed to the east fork campground half way between Bishop and Mammoth off the 395. This was a fantastic campground with tons of trees and a creek that passed the campground on the eastern edge. This is Rock Creek.


Because of the elevation its like perpetual spring up there so everywhere you turn theres wildflowers


Rock Creek Lake a little ways up the road from our campground


The next morning we woke early and went for a short hike in Little Lakes Valley a couple miles up the road from the campground. The Mosquito Flats trailhead is the highest trailhead in the Sierras at 10,000 something feet.


Little Lakes Valley is quite appropiately named


More wildflowers... this is called Indian Paintbrush... I think


Another "Little Lake"




This is Ruby Lake and our turn around point on our morning hike. All of the bodies of water up there are unbelievably crystal clear.


Nice shot of the creek on our way back down




In order to prepare for our 3am start time on the big hike morning Brent and I decided to wake very early the day before and go for an easy conditioning hike out of Horseshoe Meadow a short drive from Lone Pine where we stayed for the two nights before and one night after our Whitney trek




Brents hunting wabbits!


umm... more wildflowers. Those tall green plants in the background are called "Glacial Milk"


More pretty stuff along the horseshoe meadow hike




The next morning we started the hike up Whitney. This is Mirror Lake about 4 miles up the trail.


Keep in mind, this is August 4th. Note all the patches of snow. There are small bodies of water all over the place which make for awesome foreground




8.5 miles in and after ascending the famous 99 switchbacks, we made it to Trail crest at 13,600 ft. This is the ridgeline where the Whitney trail meets up with the John Muir Trail.


The view down into Sequoia National Park to the west at Trail Crest


Along the trail to the peak looking down at the glacial moraine infront of Whitney


We reached the top at 12:30pm, a full 9 and a half hours after we started the hike... and we still have 11 miles to go.


OKAY, this is Melvin the Marmot. He only lives at very high elevations like 14,500 ft. He is also known as a bear squirrel and is the largest rodent in North America.


On the way back down, we stopped and took some pics of the areas that we couldn't see on the way up. This area is called trail side meadow. There are no clever names up there.


This is the first and last meadow on the hike at about 3 miles up.
At this point I was so exhausted that I decided to put the camera away and just focus on getting down the hill. My feet hurt, my knees hurt, my back hurt, and the next day all I could think about was doing it again.

Allison Rawlings Jewelry Line

My friend and client, Allison Rawlings, recently decided to take the next step and build a website for her beautiful handcrafted jewelry designs and she honored me with the task of shooting the content for her new site.


All of my images were created in studio using really, really fancy lighting and camera equipment... and some props I picked up from the pet store and home depot.


(Click on the images to enlarge)


I'm also shooting clean product shots of Allisons entire line to be used in her catalog or wherever else she decides




If you would like more information about Allisons designs, shoot me an email and I'll put you in contact with her.
Or, if you have your own line of products you'd like to have photographed, lets chat.