backcountry

Cayucos ride

gundo beach day

blurry portraits

Chinatown walk

winter in MKE

The first time I bring a surfer home to Milwaukee with me, I see three guys surfing Lake Michigan in the dead of winter.. The waves actually looked decent, but still not convincing enough to leave California for them. I will say I can't wait to surf the lake in the summer for the first time! My whole life just a walk to the beach and never once did I attempt it. As long as there's snow on the ground in the motherland though, I'll stick to the non-neoprene boots and gloves and hang out on dry land.. 

Birthdays in Hawaii...

overdue... RIP Etta

Cayucos, Nov 2011

Yosemite

Words can't describe. Either can this photo, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what Yosemite Valley looked like the morning we woke up to the first snow of the winter. Granite peaks emerging out of the shifting clouds, covered in veins of white. The quiet of the valley further muted by the soft layer of snow. A welcome fireside game of chess at Ahwahnee. A herd of deer playing, uninterested in the people walking five feet away (and finally, the 12 point buck I had a stare-down with alone on the trail).

Like those granite peaks, I was stuck in the clouds most of the weekend, in a fog of introspection. It's difficult not to get lost in self-reflection in an environment like that. I re-emerged from the valley floor on Sunday with some new ideas and an appreciation for the snowy winters I have come to miss. 

el segundo, ca

San Onofre

morning air

ethereal

Chantry Flats

Jackie Treehorn

Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein Residence. A successful blurring of the boundary between indoor and outdoor space. I am especially in love with the entry sequence into this house - walking beneath the cantilevered edge of the roof through what feels like indoor space, but then again, feels like a jungle. You walk through a stainless steel gate that feels like the door to a safe, then over the koi pond and through a glass slider into the house. All of the exterior glass walls open in some way, as do the skylights overhead. Only in Southern California. Ah...the architectural possibilities... 

santa barbara

still life confetti

I don't usually post this kind of thing, but I came across Swedish artist Tove Mauritzson's work today and had to share it. Enjoy

Venice // March 2011

This is what I've been working on lately - multiple exposures. I hate digital photo manipulation, so I'm going to keep shooting this way until I get some skater busting a crazy air.. Frustrating because this would have been infinitely better, but that's what you get when you shoot multiple exposures on actual film and don't photoshop! Repetition yields results... we'll see what turns out on the next roll..

sketchbook