Maria is a young opera singer soon completing her Adler fellowship with the San Francisco Opera. Because she is building a new website, Maria wanted to refresh her old headshots and create some new portraits that would capture a bit of her personality too. I got to meet her at one of my bucket list…
Oh, Cincinnati. I don’t return to Ohio (where I spent my middle school & high school years) nearly enough, but I’ve made a better effort in the last couple years. This spring visit was perfectly tacked onto my Chicago trip. To say the city is undergoing a lot of change is an understatement. Over-the-Rhine, once known…
From one holiday to another, here’s a glimpse back at my Thanksgiving week spent in Cincinnati, Ohio. Homemade mixed berry tarts with almond filling! And homemade bread, made from wild yeast starter which we learned to do in our Sour Flour workshop the week before. Me & my mom at Thanksgiving dinner… and not pictured…
Talya is as gorgeous as ever. After a year on her Fullbright scholarship in Latvia, she is now in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, launching her opera career from the artists diploma program at the College Conservatory of Music. Brains, beauty, and talent. It’s crazy the trajectories our paths have taken since college, but it’s…
Oh, Ohio. I grew up in Ohio from middle school through high school, but my visits now are few and far between. It was such a pleasure to be back for Karen and Sam’s beautiful wedding in the state capitol and then return to Cincinnati for a week too. We started off in downtown Columbus….
It is always an honor to be a part of a friend’s wedding, and this one was extra special, as I got to return to my home state of Ohio and photograph Karen, whom I’ve known for over a decade. Karen and Sam are cute and hilarious together. Their relationship is perhaps best exemplified by…
My mom has always wanted to visit architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous house, Fallingwater. It’s nestled in the woods of western Pennsylvania and built right alongside some waterfalls, and it’s the perfect iconic example of Wright’s “organic architecture” approach. When my mom mentioned this to me in September, I thought about it for a…
Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. For more, view all these ballerina posts or visit the Pointe of View store. Cincinnati, Ohio, has never looked so good. I spent my middle school and high school years in the suburbs of Cincinnati, and yet it’s fair to say I never really bonded with…
When I look at this image, I love the colors of autumn, the beautiful dancer, and the fact that I once took my high school prom photos right next to this gazebo. But the thing I love most is the light. I have always tended toward being a natural light photographer, scouting for light and…
It already seems so distant, that feeling of jetting day to day. Over the course of sixty days I flew across the country, traveling for work and (mostly) for fun. For the first thirty days, I had a JetBlue All You Can Jet pass, which allowed me to fly as much as I wanted, wherever…
I had forgotten what autumn in the Midwest feels like, the temperature swinging from freezing at night to cool and crisp during the day. Here I was, back in Cincinnati for just a couple days before heading down to shoot a wedding in Kentucky. I was thinking back to how reluctant I had been to…
Even before it hits, you can feel it coming on. It takes but one step from the plane onto the jetway for it to strike in full force. The humidity. The heat. It’s a giant cloud stifling you with its sticky, unsolicited embrace. Welcome to Cincinnati. To be honest, I kind of missed it. There’s…