Journal

Last Father’s Day weekend, my whole family packed up and made a trip down to the Quad Cities where my sisters and I grew up. When my father passed away, my mother had decided to spread his ashes along the Mississippi. It had been a long time since we’d been back, and my mother was […]

I struggled with this piece for some time. This mixed media drawing originally started as a rather bleak landscape, and I found myself torn between focusing solely on that or incorporating the human figure. I often find myself in this situation as a piece develops, and I’ve ruined or abandoned many projects by not finding […]

  Two different days; two different sunrises. I think Chroma the Great* would have been proud.     Shot with Canon 6D | EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM and EF 50mm f/1.8 II   *If you haven’t read it, pick up a copy of the “Phantom Tollbooth”. It’s a kids book, but amusing nonetheless.

It wasn’t until I was about twelve years old that the concept of space truly hit me. My sister had picked me up from a rehearsal or perhaps a music lesson, and we were on our way home. We were cresting a hill on a street that we had ridden on hundreds of time, and […]

  Shot with EM5 mk II | Olypmus M 12-40mm F2.8

Just some mushroom doodles…

Two weekends ago I was driving to Des Moines, Iowa, and I shot this photo of a barn that is just off of I-80 in Illinois. I usually look for this particular barn whenever I’m on this highway. Needing to leave at around five in the morning to get there on time, I was finally […]

LITTLE BIRD As I sat outside the other day I heard the sound of jets But there were none to be seen Which led me to believe that it was you Little bird Making all that noise ,Wings outstretched Manipulating the currents of air The tips of your feathers Tearing an invisible rent in the […]