Venice Beach Skater
Venice Beach Skater When I was a kid I would go through a pair a shoes a week. My shoes would more often than not look like this kids. It never even dawned on me that my mom was spending as much...
View ArticleBicycling Magazine September Cover
Bicycling Magazine September 2013 Cover I was contacted to by Bicycling Magazine to do the cover of their September issue. This was to be the first cover in their new redesign which more prominently...
View ArticleDriver's Education Road & Track Magazine
I was contacted by Design Director David Speranza to do a shoot for a feature in Road & Track. The article was about teen drivers being undertrained and the outdated drivers license exam...
View ArticleDr. Clarence Jones - American Way Magazine
Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones Palo Alto Home Today is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. I was asked to shoot Dr. Clarence Jones for American Airline's inflight...
View ArticleUSAA Campaign With VSA Partners
USAA for VSA Partners I did a shoot a while back with VSA Partners for USAA. I had a great time traveling across the country with Art Director Britta Hernalsteen (a highlight being the BBQ in Austin...
View ArticleNew York City
Flat Iron Building, New York Flat Iron Building, New York Waterfront Building, New York The High Line, New York Last month I had a great trip to New York for the fall NYCFotoworks. I’ve been going to...
View ArticleLevi Felix - San Francisco Magazine
Before the new year I was asked to shoot Levi Felix of Digital Detox for San Francisco Magazine. Digital detox is a company Levi founded to get people to disconnect from their technology and...
View ArticleGiulietta Carrelli - Pacific Standard Magazine
Giulietta Carrelli - Trouble Coffee, San Francisco I was asked to photography Giulietta Carrelli for Pacific Standard magazine just before the end of 2013. Giulietta started the local cafe Trouble...
View ArticleDan Lanois' 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop
I was on a flight home from New York Friday night when I received an email asking if I was available to do a last minute shoot on Saturday for The Grid. Talk about last minute. I'm glad for the...
View ArticleWestern Academy of Photography
Well I guess this is as good a post for “Throwback Thursday” as any. Last night I found out that the school where I studied photography has closed its doors. In the summer of 2002 I left my Silicon...
View ArticleLeonard Susskind - The Telegraph
I've shot some smart people in my time as a photographer. On the subject of politics, I photographed Christopher Hitchens. On the subject of philosophy I photographed John Searle. But I'm going to...
View ArticleJeremy Stoppelman - Yelp
Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO, Emerce Magazine I had a great time shooting Jeremy Stoppelman, the CEO of Yelp, for Emerce Magazine. Doing a little research on Jeremy before the shoot, his first job was...
View ArticleMarianne Vos - Bicycling Magazine
I've been going to Laguna Seca since I was a kid. My dad would take me there every year to see auto races like the Can-Am series. I even had the chance to drive the track myself years ago (and even...
View ArticleMaggie Shipstead - The Telegraph
I had a good time walking around The Mission with author Maggie Shipstead on a shoot for The Telegraph UK. I was driving around Dolores Park before the shoot looking for places to meet up when the...
View ArticleElixir Design Portraits
I was asked to shoot some portraits at an SF Design Week event for Elixir Design. They didn't want the typical party "photo booth" shots. They asked if I could do portraits in a "Vermeer's Light"...
View ArticleShuddle
I was asked to shoot the images for the launch of the new car service Shuddle. Since people love to describe new things in terms of things that already exist, it's being called the Uber for kids....
View ArticleYves Behar - Bilan Magazine
I was asked to photograph Yves Behar at his San Francisco design studio Fuse Project for Bilan magazine.Before we started, Yves noticed my camera and was fascinated by it. He said he'd never seen a...
View ArticleJohn Chambers - Harvard Business Review
Before I was a photographer I was an engineer at Cisco Systems. Since I'm often being asked to photograph CEO's of the valley's tech companies I assumed it was only a matter of time before being...
View ArticleVenice Beach Skatepark
Whenever I'm in LA I head over to the Venice Beach Skatepark. There is always a great group of skaters there and I can spend hours watching them skate, wishing I was as good as I was back in the day....
View ArticleNorman Winarsky - Harvard Business Review
Norman Winarsky at SRI International headquarters I was asked to photograph Norman Winarsky, the creator of Siri, for Harvard Business Review. Upon arriving at SRI International I was expecting to be...
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