While I was retouching photos from this amazing birthday party, I was listening to a podcast by genius Sam Harris. Harris was interviewing one of the Silicon Valley tech wizards about the manipulative techniques deployed by Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and others. These companies expertly use deep understanding of human psychology, as well as increasingly brilliant… Read More
How to Fail and Quit at Everything: Back in what seems like another lifetime, long before my career as a photographer, I used to teach English 5 days a week in Korea to adults. Every morning I awoke and immediately gulped down a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Excitement because my job was cool: I… Read More
I was just scratching my head at Google Analytics. I do this once a month or so. It’s a business tool that tells me about all of you, your demographics, your interests, what you ate for lunch. I go there, click stuff, and stare blankly at graphs. Eventually, I shrug my shoulders and see what’s… Read More
It blows my mind with gratitude that we have regulars to our blog, reading and looking at our photographs. If that’s you, know that I’m taking my hands off the keyboard for a moment to wave at you through my screen. Like anybody who creates stuff, I truly appreciate having an audience. If you’re familiar… Read More
A potential occupational hazard of newborn photography is that you fall in love with other people’s babies. The ongoing joke I keep telling clients is that their baby is making my wife ovulate. It’s barely a joke, really. Inevitably, after a shoot like this one, Rae and I start talking kids (which sometimes leads… Read More