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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this year I spent some time photographing Montgomery Distillery here in Missoula, Montana and Bowser Brewing in Great Falls, Montana. Ryan Montgomery and Evan Bowser are cousins who both happened to go into the alcohol industry here in Montana. Ryan and Jenny are creating vodka, gin, and aquavit in their Missoula distillery. Evan is […]
A while back I photographed chef Linton Hopkins for the folks over at Whole Foods. If you are in the Johns Creek, Georgia store you can check out one of my photos in the bread department. If I were you I’d grab some of this bread too — because it is pretty stinking delicious. […]
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 […]
We woke up here in Missoula to softly falling snow. It’s the most we’ve had in a bit and it makes me wonder how much more snow there is up at Seeley Lake. A couple weeks ago we set out on a weekend adventure there with some good friends. The snow on the frozen lake […]
This past weekend Lido and I headed north to Whitefish and I photographed one of the town’s annual events: The Whitefish Winter Carnival. This year’s theme was Viva Las Vegas — so of course the grand marshall of the parade was Wayne Newton. It was fun to be back in a community we called home […]
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 […]