New Orleans

I recently traveled to New Orleans to capture the culture of this amazing city. From the graveyards to the jazz to the great cajun food, New Orleans has a lot to offer. You can view all the photos here. Below are a few of my favorites.

Bourbon Street at dusk with Maison Bourbon Jazz Club in foreground.

A local New Orleans artist, Reggie Ford, in front of one of his paintings.

Jazz band playing at the historic Maison Bourbon Jazz Club.

A musician, who goes by the name Sparrow, playing guitar on a city bench.

St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square with a colorful night sky.

A statue of a girl mourning on a grave at St. Louis Cemetery.

Detail of fence surrounding Jackson Square.

PhotoShelter & Stock

Over the last few years a lot of my photographs have been collecting dust on hard drives. I've shot a lot of travel and other photography with stock in mind, but had the constant challenge of workload. I have always been too busy with "real work" to do the little things to get those photos ready to sell. This included image selection, post-production, titling, captioning and keywording the images. With a lot of help from Stephanie and Ryan and some more time to dedicate to it, we finally made it happen.

The first big step to get my images out there for sale was to put them up on PhotoShelter. PhotoShelter is a stock site that allows photographers to submit images for their review. Those that are accepted are then sold through their site.

Take a look at my page and you can see around 1,000 images that I have taken from 2003-2008. Since they had to go through a review process, you are seeing the best of the best. Here are a couple of photos that are on the site.

My most viewed photo so far on the site.

A photo that was recently selected as an "editor's choice".

Next step is going to be to start submitting to other stock agencies to try and get them to represent some of my work. Wish me luck!

Travel Photography

I truly feel blessed to do what I do for a living. I was able to find my passion in life and turn it into my career. It has allowed me to get to know some great people, spend the amount of time I want with my family, show people the world through my eyes and so much more. Being able to travel is definitely one of the greatest benefits.

My wife and I leave tomorrow for vacation in Spain. I will be photographing as we go to Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. I plan on having a show at the studio (with some great Sangria) sometime in the late summer or early fall. Watch for details.

One of my goals is to make people wish they were there when they look at my photos. I couple years ago my wife and I traveled to Italy and I did my best to capture the essence of that amazing country (you can see a few of my favorites below). I'm hoping to do the same with Spain. Watch this space for Spain photos in the coming weeks.