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Once It Was New

Over the past several weeks I have been experimenting with making my own textures for use in my images. I have a huge library of images in Lightroom that I really enjoy looking at however for one...

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Portrait Shoot Outtake: Nichole

A few nights ago I did a portrait shoot with the fabulous Nichole and we had a really fun time shooting! By Day she does graphic design and marketing but off work she is also an actor. The goal with …...

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Tread Lightly

Walking along the streams here is always a lot of fun because there are always photo ops right under your feet! I think the combination of some type of forest growth or leaves with a waterfall or other...

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Nichole- Final Portrait Shoot Images

I had a really great portrait session with Nichole last week and after delivering the final images to her I am excited to post and show them here on my blog. I am looking forward to doing more portrait...

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Mornings First Kiss

After spending the past five months hiking streams and mountains I decided to get up at sunrise this week and do a little shooting down on the waterfront. I am always on the hunt in familiar territory...

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Marketing My Work

In an effort to promote myself and my photography business a bit more I decided to do a small print run of postcards to send out to the Marketing departments of various businesses here in town. It took...

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I Followed The Rivers Edge

I love to walk along the streams here in the Spring and Summer because of the sheer variety of photographic opportunities that you can find if you keep an open mind and pay attention to your...

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Reflections With A Girl

I will be the first to admit that I really did not think that this image would work for me. Often when I am out shooting landscapes the work can be quite solitary however my wife sometimes comes with...

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Riding Along

I have been prepping my Spring images for a submission and I came across this little gem in my image files. My original intention was to put some motion blur into this image but at the time when I took...

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Circle Of Life

With a new job of 12 hour shifts and preparations for a baby on the way I have a bit of a backlog of images to post! I have been holding onto this one for about two months because I … Continue reading →

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Night Sky

I had the chance the other night with crystal clear skies to do a bit of night shooting! I was actually out shooting the sunset over Lake Champlain but I managed to stay well after the sun had set so …...

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Surface Ripples

Today’s image was an experiment for me to go beyond what I would normally do in a focus stacked image. Normally I would attempt to shoot the puddle of water here to get the reflection of the forest...

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Quiet Interlude

While I still have several images from this Summer to post I thought I would take a break and offer up one of my first shots of Autumn that has begun here in Vermont! The Fall is a special time …...

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All The Things We Love

I like to challenge myself with different composition ideas from time to time and this Fall is no exception. I really wanted to try to get some more shape and textural images this year and today’s...

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A Moments Peace

Finding these water swirl images is always a challenge. I am always on the lookout for them when I am hiking but getting the right conditions to be able to shoot a swirl image doesn’t happen everyday....

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Sweet Surrender

Autumn is a time of photographing color but there is a short window of time at the end of the foliage season where the leaves that have fallen to the ground still show a bit of color and have not …...

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A Perfect Confluence

* A print of this image is always available here! I am taking a little break from my Autumn images today with one that I shot from this Summer. Every once in a while I take a break from the … Continue...

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Bittersweet Tears

Picking something beautiful out of the chaos of leaves on the forest floor in Fall is always a challenge. It’s easy as a photographer to get lost looking for that one great Autumn image in all of the...

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By The Numbers

* A print of this image is available here! I am somewhat of a camera nerd in that I have several pieces of old camera equipment proudly displayed around our house. I really do love these old things and...

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A Divergent Path

* Prints, Canvas wraps and Metal prints of this image are avalaible here! Every artist at some point in their journey comes to a point where the work must diverge onto a different path or they risk...

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