A new year to Shine!
Two years ago I gathered my courage, packed up my puppy Jax and my things, and headed down south to San Diego, California from San Francisco, a place I had called home for the past 20 something years. It was a very brave [...]
Two years ago I gathered my courage, packed up my puppy Jax and my things, and headed down south to San Diego, California from San Francisco, a place I had called home for the past 20 something years. It was a very brave [...]
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray" Rumi I have been contemplating the journey I have been on both personally and professionally the past few years and I realize how much [...]
To be vulnerable. To be open. To live wholeheartedly. To be willing to dream. To be alive. To live fearlessly. To have the courage of a thousand warriors in your heart as you set forth to fulfill your destiny. To feel the tenderness in [...]
A while back I had the opportunity to shoot the amazing, talented, and beautiful Cassie in her sacred space and what an honor it was. I was in the studio running around adjusting lighting, prepping as I always do then as my custom, I [...]
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall, " Nelson Mandela. This rings true in every fiber of my being, for I live it and breathe it, even when I want to give up and [...]
"It is never too late to start again and be what you might have been"... or never knew you could be! While we get one chance at this beautiful thing called life, we get many many chances to start over, reinvent ourselves, learn, trip [...]
Someone asked me once what do you like to photograph? It took me a second to think, my response was “Love”. The secret behind being great at what you do in life is “Love” Not only do I love what I do but my [...]
I am but in the beginning of my journey but yet I feel I have traveled miles already and I am humbled at the opportunities and that I have a piece of art hanging in the Harrington Gallery this month which has won an [...]
My favorite thing to do is document the world around me through my heart, soul and lens. The author William Saroyan said it best "San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every [...]
The Lonely Tree  There it stands The lonely tree Solitary, sun up sun down, It still stands. Blowing are the cool fall winds Orange, yellow, red, brown, are the autumn leaves Falling to the ground, It still stands. Slashing are the icy winter [...]