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I’ve been thinking, even obsessing, a lot lately, especially having just come from Cuba and photographed some absolutely beautiful street faces, about what exactly is it, about Portrait photography and the portrait process, that draws me in, like a magical and irresistible concoction? What enchants and transfixes me to making surface, temporal and fleeting connections…

As a career Travel Photographer, personally and commercially, it wouldn’t at all be much of a stretch, to say that my heightened sense of color in photography, was born across and through the borders and boundaries of countries and continents. When you travel, as I have and still do, the destinations you frequent, tend to…

Sherilyn Milch is a professional Austin model. She’s awesome. Really. Seriously. No shit. I’m not just saying this. Beautiful. Fun to be around. Funny as hell. Open. Loose. Free. Not full of herself. Tall. Gorgeous. Super sexy. With this chica, what’s not to like and be photographically attracted to? I’ve photographed her a handful of…

I own, and proudly wear, a T-shirt, that reads, “Eat. Sleep. Shoot”. No joke, it’s exactly who I am and how I live my life. Click. Click again. I’m not, by any stretch, and to my own admission, the most balanced kid on the block. Never have been. It’s all or nothing for me. I…

Before, during, and after my trip to Cuba, I had been pondering, even obsessing, about my own personal subject expertise and virtuosity in photography. Was I a generalist or a specialist? What was I really great at shooting? What did I enjoy shooting most? And why? What subjects, scenes, and scenarios, in love and life,…

Most of the time, when I’m out and about, with my camera, whether personally or professionally, photography, as a general rule, is both representative and restorative. In others words, more often than not, photography fills me up. But there’s another side of photography that you rarely hear talked about. This is is the side of…

I remember, painfully well, both my parents and teachers, especially during my High-School years, telling me, repeatedly, to get my “Head out of the Clouds”. They meant well. Their collective chastisement and reprimand were, of course, sincere, so they thought, speak for my good and better state and frame of mind. But the more I…

I don’t honestly remember any destination I have ever visited, in my 4-decade career, as a professional photographer, that has the tactility that Cuba has. While recently visiting her border and boundaries, I wanted to touch, literally, everything I photographed. Cuba is, unquestionably, tangible and tactile. Her textual qualities are seductive and enchanting. They are…

Yirka, my Havana guide, and production assistant asked me: “Why I photographed so many doors?”. Good question. I guess it seems a bit odd, maybe even puzzling, given my original mission to come to Cuba to shoot portraits, that I would travel such a great distance, to photograph what apparently seemed to her, to be…

I went to Cuba for one purpose only-to collect content for a new online course about iPhone Street and Portrait photography. I came back, for sure, with the goods, and more, but it took me three days to get started. I arrived exhausted. Cuba was the last in a long series of projects I had…

Back in 2018, I took my first photography trip to Cuba. At the time, I was smack in the middle of separating from Shannon and trying desperately to figure out what the rest of my life would look like. I was, in fact, an emotional train wreck, to say the least. And while most of…

I was sharing, in a lovely Eastside Austin courtyard, an oven-roasted, vegetarian-topped, thick-crusted, pizza pie with a new artist, well-groomed, early 50-something, lady friend. She was asking me about my life interests and experiences, looking for, as you might imagine, common grounds between us. I immediately and enthusiastically launched into my passion for photography. It…