Last summer I spent time driving around Montana searching for the best places to pick your own fruit. My search took me from the shores of Flathead Lake to fields of strawberries outside of Missoula. I learned that organic orchards often use sheep to clean up fallen fruit and that picking strawberries in the early […]
hello At the end of last summer I spent a couple days in Bigfork, Montana photographing the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival and Workshop. This last year has brought a consistent challenge of both writing and photographing stories simultaneously. It’s been a difficult thing to try and do both well. Lift your camera and […]
At the end of last year I spent some time writing and photographing a story about the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s 60th anniversary for Montana Magazine. How could you not enjoy an assignment that sends you to music rehearsal and backstage during a performance? It’s definitely been a challenge writing and photographing stories simultaneously this past year. […]
It’s almost been a year since we left the Flathead Valley and contracted a new vast broadband internet. Now we are moving again — only this time it’s to a place here in Missoula that will probably be our address for the foreseeable future. What is really hard to believe is that it has almost […]
Standing in a field so full of bees that my body was vibrating with the hum of their buzzing was a first. So was finding out that raising bees outside Glacier National Park means that sometimes bears eat your bee hives. Working on this story and photographing the folks at Glacier County Honey Company […]
There are some assignments that, once finished, leave you feeling better than when you started. This assignment was one of those experiences for me. When I got the call from Poets and Writers Magazine that I would be photographing bestselling, mystery author James Lee Burke I was more than a little nervous. He’s a well […]
Sometimes there are stories that you cover that really stay with you. Long after you are finished editing you still think about them. On April 27th, German exchange student Diren Dede was shot and killed in his neighbor Markus Kaarma’s garage. The investigation is ongoing. I spent several days the week following his death working […]
Missoula is a great town and has so many great places to discover. I was thrilled when Country Living asked me to contribute to their online project chronicling special spots in all 50 states. I of course had to recommend one of my favorites, Butterfly Herbs. If you want loose tea, a gift for a […]
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If you weren’t sure, here’s proof that it’s winter. This person won’t be getting into their car for a bit. The past five days have been a snowy mess here in Missoula including several avalanches, icy airport runways, and school closures. I ventured out last Friday in the middle of the blizzard for a walk […]
The end of the year is always a nice time to step back and look at what you’ve accomplished, what’s changed, and where you are going. 2013 was a year of huge changes from start to finish. Lido and I are now in a new city and both working full time for ourselves. This is […]
October is one of my favorite months. It’s that last breath before the rush of the holidays. Fall is here in full swing in Montana and I always feel like there is never enough time to soak it all up. I have lots of editorial and commercial shoots to blog and I’m working to catch […]