Navric Studios

05/25/2026

"Have you ever shot film"
"yes"
"did you enjoy it"
"no"
"Will you ever shoot film again"
"Maybe"
Kodak 400
January 2022
Portland Oregon
Hasselblad 500
DM me at Navricstudios Instagram if you want my opinion on using the medium format film camera.

05/01/2026

A thank you to Seychelle Lusk for being part of the photoshoot in Denver!

03/22/2026

Ten years ago, I stopped here on the way out of Tennessee, heading toward Portland with no real plan beyond forward. I took this photo and kept moving. I didn’t think much of it at the time. Just another place, another stop.

Now I’m back, standing in the same spot, in a city I never expected to call home. Same landmark, different life.

Do you ever return to a place and realize it was part of your path all along?

03/04/2026

100% got sand in my mouth for this shot.

03/03/2026

I've taken the opportunity to compare my camera of ambition from over 10 years ago, the 5D Mark III Canon, to my current working camera that was the ambition of yesteryear. The differences between the two are incredible. Here's a look into the Sony a75 which is my current main body.https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a7-v-review?utm_source=self-desktop&utm_medium=marquee&utm_campaign=traffic_source

03/03/2026

Eight years ago, but it feels like yesterday.
I pulled these back into the edit bay and started over completely. No presets. No copying old settings. I rebuilt the color, reworked the contrast curve, reshaped the tones, and let my current eye make the decisions.
Shooting in RAW has always mattered to me for this reason. The file is not locked in time. It carries depth, flexibility, and information that lets you reinterpret the moment years later. What I was drawn to then is different from what I emphasize now. Skin tones shift. Shadows breathe differently. Color becomes more restrained.
Going back into old work is humbling. You see your instincts. You see your limitations. You also see the foundation that was there all along.
Have you ever revisited your old work and seen something completely different the second time around?

03/02/2026

Another image from the deep archive. This was my first real attempt at building a panoramic landscape, and I remember realizing how much possibility the technique opened up. By stitching multiple frames together, I could move beyond the limitations of the lens I had and create something that felt wider, deeper, and more immersive than a single exposure allowed.
Photographed at South Holston Dam in Tennessee in 2014, this frame became a quiet turning point. What started as experimentation slowly became part of how I see and construct landscapes. My approach to panoramas has evolved since then, but this image still stands as the beginning.

03/01/2026

Phase Two Begins

This year is about discipline, structure, and building something stronger than before. Behind the scenes, the photo and video system has been the largest project to rebuild. It has taken months of organization, refinement, and hard decisions before anything felt ready to share publicly.

For 11 years, Trung Phan Photography focused primarily on weddings. That season was meaningful and formative. But alongside those weddings were countless personal projects, experiments, studies, and images that never fit within the business model at the time.

Now, with the transition to Navric Studios, there is room to reopen the archive.

The Trung Phan Photography channels will shift into something different: a nostalgic and experimental space. As I work through hundreds of thousands of archived images, many of them will resurface here. Not as portfolio pieces curated for a single niche, but as part of a broader photographic history.

This is less about rebranding and more about documentation. An open archive. A record of growth. A body of work that extends beyond one category.

More to come.

01/16/2026

I kinda owe this guy my career
"The godfather of the active-pixel CMOS sensor, Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering"

The godfather of the active-pixel CMOS sensor, Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering

01/02/2026

One thing I want to be clear about. I’m not leaving the wedding world. I love it, plain and simple. Being outside with couples, chasing light, weather, and real moments is a huge part of why I photograph weddings in Colorado.

This session was a big one for me. My first engagement shoot in the mountains near Denver. We headed up to Dream Lake right as winter was settling in. The lake was frozen solid. People were ice skating, kids were sliding across the surface, and we were slowly building the nerve to walk farther and farther out. It felt equal parts peaceful and exhilarating.

Cold air, quiet mountains, and movement everywhere. This is exactly why I love photographing couples outdoors. Real places. Real conditions. Real memories. The studio work adds another layer to what I do, but it does not replace this.

If you want to follow along as things grow, head over to Navric Studios on Instagram as we start building there.

01/02/2026

So why a studio?
Partly to put my master’s work into practice. Partly to evolve my craft so it doesn’t stagnate. But mostly because a studio makes things real. By real, I mean physical. Shared space. Intentional constraints. A place where people can step into an environment and turn ideas into objects, images, and stories. Where sets can be built, worlds can be shaped, and photographs can exist beyond the screen. Where prints are made because they matter, not because they scale. A studio allows for slower work. More deliberate work. Work I can stand behind. I live in Denver. I’m happy to be here. But I don’t want geography to define the limits of my imagination. This is where the studio will live. The work will travel.