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Photographer/ Adventurer/ Reader/ Thinker/ Coffee Lover Outdoor lifestyle and Nature Photography

06/09/2026

Dust, denim, and a little danger. Golden hour out in San Juan Capistrano hit different — leaned all the way into the western grit on this one. Sometimes you just gotta let the light and the subject do the talking.

06/08/2026

California light, western grit, and good people.
A few quick edits from an unforgettable creative gathering with in San Juan Capistrano. Looking forward to sharing more from this trip.

06/07/2026

Had an incredible time at a creative gathering put together by in San Juan Capistrano, California. I flew all the way from North Carolina to be a part of it, and it was absolutely worth it.
Met some amazing people, made new connections, and came away inspired. These are just a few quick edits I worked on after finally getting home at 1:00 a.m. last night.
Looking forward to sharing many more images from this trip and doing it all again someday.

06/06/2026

Some places don’t ask you to conquer them — they just ask you to stand still and pay attention. The Beartooths have a way of shrinking your problems down to the size of a backpack. Grateful for the gear that gets me here and the partners who trust me to bring it back.

Shot a few years back in the Beartooth Wilderness, Montana. pack, boots

05/30/2026

Convincing my wife to be my model for a backpacking shoot in the Arizona desert sounded like a great idea. The reality was 110°, full sun, and a one-burner stove cooking eggs that were threatening to scramble themselves before they hit the pan. She hiked in, sat in the dirt, cracked eggs, and ate breakfast on cue while I circled her like a sweaty paparazzo asking for “just one more.” Somehow the light was incredible, the food actually tasted good, and we made it back to the car still on speaking terms.

Marriage tip: nothing tests a relationship like asking your spouse to take a bite of camp eggs for the fourteenth time while you say “perfect, hold that.” Yes, we are still married, haha!

05/26/2026

Some trips you remember in pictures. This one I remember in weather.
A few years back, somewhere in the Scottish Highlands - bagging Munros, getting humbled by the wind, and finding out exactly how waterproof “waterproof” really is. There were moments up on those ridges where I genuinely wondered what I’d signed up for. Sideways rain.
Visibility gone. That kind of cold that gets into the seams. A couple of situations I’d rather not relive but wouldn’t trade either.
And then it would break. Light through the clouds, a rainbow over a glen, a tent pitched on a stretch of moss with the whole world spread out below - and you remember why you came.
Scotland doesn’t hand you anything. You earn every view, every meal cooked in the vestibule, every dry pair of socks. But when it’s done, you’re already thinking about the next one.

05/25/2026

Cold steel. Warm light. A river that doesn’t quite freeze, and a dog that sits like he’s carved out of it.
Montana in late season has a way of stripping things down — the cattails go brittle, the ducks get cagey, and what’s left is you, the river, and a gun you trust. Shooting birds on the wing is its own kind of honest work — no second chances, just the swing, the lead, and whatever the wind decides to do with your shot string. The Browning ran clean from first light to last, and the dog worked like he’d done it a thousand times - steady on the bank, eyes on the sky, marking every fall without a word from his handler. That kind of partnership doesn’t happen by accident.
Grateful for the country, the gear, and the good dogs that still hold days like these together.

05/24/2026

The Pacific doesn’t whisper here. It thunders against sea stacks, sends seafoam scattering across the sand, and lifts gulls into skies the color of old gold. Olympic has quietly become one of my favorite parks in the country — there’s something about the way the mountains run headlong into the sea, the way these ancient monoliths rise from the surf like they’ve been waiting a thousand years for the tide to notice them. Wildlife everywhere. Driftwood the size of fallen cathedrals. Light that changes every five minutes. Some places you visit. This one stays with you.

05/23/2026

Vertical world, West Virginia edition. A few seasons back, I had the privilege of shooting at NROCKS in Circleville for Backpacker — chasing climbers up the via ferrata where twin quartzite fins jut nearly 200 feet out of the Allegheny hardwoods, looking out over Germany Valley.
There’s a moment on a route like this where the world narrows down to the next handhold, the next clip, the breath in your chest. Everything else falls away. The forest below, the soundtrack you brought, the inbox waiting at home — gone. Just rock, rope, and the quiet decision to keep moving up.
Grateful to the climbers who trusted me to hang off the side of a cliff and point a camera at them, and to for sending me into one of the most underrated landscapes east of the Mississippi.

05/22/2026

Montana, a few years back. Me and my buddy - both firefighters at the time, him out there, me back in NC — looked down a scree field on the way to camp and made the executive decision that straight down was a great idea.
Our videographer, watching two grown men commit to controlled-falling a few hundred feet, hollered “freakin’ firefighters and their dumb ideas!” and started down after us.
He wasn’t wrong. He came anyway. That’s the whole job description for a good friend on a shoot.
Tent up by dark. Fly rod out by morning. No regrets.

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