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Still imagery of miscellaneous subjects, portraits and scenes.
This gallery also includes several wedding and product photography samples.

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BEING YOURSELF

A project about personal identity and reflection.

DANCING LIGHTS

Long exposure experimentation. Camera set up on tripod with open aperture, while I ran with different colored lights to create trails.

FOSSIL FRIEND

Miniature dinosaur skeleton scene. This picture was taken right outside my front door.

CULTURAL RELATIONS

Still life scene, featuring my brother and a broken lava lamp that I lit with a flashlight.

VISUAL SPECTRUM OF SOUND

The sound you can see! These paper plates were makeshift painter's palettes that I utilized as a backdrop to practice capturing light refraction.

MISALIGNED

Compositional exercise and practice with dramatic lighting.

LIGHTNING TREE

Landscape photography. Framed to create a suggested path that leads to the focal point, a fallen tree that seems to reach down from the clouds.

SHADOW PATH

A mysteriously welcoming road. Though much of the composition is dark, the warm color scheme makes this scene more inviting than ominous.

DON'T SHOOT

Getting shot is pretty bad but getting your picture taken is worse, right?

ENGAGEMENT

Totally conventional wedding photography.

FORKED UP

Suggestive of discrimination and anyone who feels like the 'black sheep'.

SHORT FUSE

A tiny little bob-omb enjoying a tiny little garden.

You don't always know what darkness lies beneath the surface. This photo was part of a narrative series comprised of seven still images. The theme centralized around suspense and the power of suggestion. The moments leading up to a scare are the most intriguing to me because imagination is often more terrifying than reality.

DON'T TOUCH IT

...but what if no one is looking?

STUBBORN

A stubborn sprout sneaks through the cracks of these outdoor tiles. Compositional practice where a pattern is disrupted by the subject of the photo.

CACTI / CACTYOU / CACTUS

A gathering of budding succulents.

LIFEBULBS

A play on the term 'natural energy.' A collection of fake flowers in fake light bulbs and actual light bulbs scattered among dry leaves.

RANSOM

Commentary about how society is hostage to tabloid content, shown by mimicking the ransom cutout style. For this photo I stood directly above the subject while three others held phones displaying replacement facial features.

SUPREME DROOLER OF THE FREE WORLD

The soggiest dog you'll ever meet. This was a challenge to capture because she was too excited to sit still for very long.

LIZARD LOUNGE

Nature photography practice with live subjects.

"C" / SEE NOTE

Do you "see" what I did there?

ATTITUNE

Musical attitude. Practice with portraits.

THE AKBARTIST

A colorful character indeed. I wanted to create a playful scene here that incorporated color and suggested a story.

UNSHAVEN LIMBS

These winding prickly plants reminded me of arms or legs, reaching out and stretching.

HIT AND RUN

I found this poor little critter on the side of an empty road. I traced a chalk outline around him before snapping this picture. Intended to mimic official crime scene photography.

SUPER SMASH BROS

My brothers brawling in Super Smash Brothers. Experimentation in portrait composition and storytelling.

TRANSPARENT STRATEGY

Glass and lighting photography exercise. Glass chess pieces, glass shards in a glass vase, and a glass cube sit on a mirror. Intentional mixing of warm and cool lights.

GREEN STRANGER

This is my brother wearing a green body suit in Walmart. I tend to enjoy odd subjects in mundane surroundings.

DISNEY WEDDING INVITATION

This was the photo my sister used for her wedding invitation. I set up a makeshift studio with string lights and sheets as a backdrop.

DISNEY ENGAGEMENT

A photo from my sister's wedding annoucement photo session.

RING GLAMOUR SHOT

A photo from my sister's wedding annoucement photo session, showcasing her gorgeous ring and capturing a 'Prince Charming' vibe.

JUST MARRIED

Wedding photography snapshat of the bridal party right after the ceremony.

HEADSHOT

An acting headshot sample.

GHOST FISH

While walking along a nature trail close to my house, I stumbled across an odd pile of decaying fish and decided to take a picture. I thought there was something morbidly beautiful about the vivid colors.

PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo for an online retailer selling a lantern. Photo taken in a white box set-up then digitally enhanced in post.

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Photo for an online retailer selling a touch lamp.