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I believe the job of a photographer is to tell a story with the images they take. But sometimes my photographic adventures have stories that go beyond the camera, and I enjoy writing about them.

The posts below are a mixture of those adventures, combined with tutorials on lighting and printing, and all are designed to make photography more accessible to those with a shared interest in creating impactful images.

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New York Revisited

It’s Monday morning here in NYC and my bags are packed ready to fly home after a rather accidental but fantastic weekend trip to the city. Work had taken me to Nashville and the flights required a layover which for BA means NYC. So after the working week I flew back to NYC and instead of going straight home I got off the plane to see family and friends but also to take some photos.

I was last here in June when the city was shrouded in a thick orange smog caused by the Canadian wildfires. At the time I had planned to shoot some street fashion with Marisa Roper who is local to NYC.

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