My Stories
Notes from behind the lens.
Chasing Light at Golden Hour
There is a forty-minute window right after sunrise and right before sunset where every surface seems to hold its own light. I plan entire sessions around it now — not because the rest of the day is...
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Finding Stillness in Portrait Work
Most people tense up the moment a lens points at them. The best portrait sessions I have shot spend the first ten minutes doing nothing that looks like "the shoot" at all — just talking, walking, l...
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Notes from a Goa Coastal Shoot
Salt air is brutal on gear and wonderful for light. A few things I learned shooting three days along Goa's rocky coastline: bring twice the lens cloths you think you need, shoot into the haze inste...
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Why I Still Shoot on Film
Digital is faster, cheaper per frame, and more forgiving — and I still load a roll of film at least once a month. Not out of nostalgia, but because the limit of thirty-six frames changes how carefu...
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