I just photographed another subject for this Fall's issue of the Alumnus Magazine. Today I was photographing Professor Beverly Seckinger at the University of Arizona Department of Media Arts. She was great fun and I think the images turned out awesome. I can't wait to see her upcoming documentary on Hippies.

I would post photos from the session, but I give the Alumni Association first publishing rights. I don't want to ruin the surprise of the magazine, but so far I've photographed Coach Stoops, new head basketball coach Sean Miller, and a couple of other stories for the magazine. So please look for the Fall issue it should be out in early fall this year.

I'm also going to be working with Steve Rivera on an upcoming multimedia project for the Alumni website. I'll keep everyone informed when it comes out. I think it should be awesome!

I just finished working on images from Brittany and Britton's engagment session. "The Britts" were a lot of fun to work with. We held the session at the University of Arizona, but tried not to get too much of a UofA feel, because Brittany is an NAU girl :). They were up for just about anything and I can't wait to work with them at their wedding.














You can see the rest of their engagement photos by going to my proofing site: , but you'll have to get the password from them.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Believe it or not I'm a huge sports fan. Most people, when they see me, don't think I would be a sports fan but I am. I like watching sports (I watched the soccer game the other day it was awesome!), I like playing sports, and of course I like photographing sports.

My senior year at NAU I was the staff photographer for the athletic department. It was a great gig. It was like I was on an athletic scholarship to be their photographer.

When I moved to Tucson I met a man named Ben Rider while I was in a job interview with another photographer. Ben offered me a job photographing for the University of Arizona athletics' department on the spot. I of course took it. It was a dream job, I got to go on the road with the football team sometimes and photographed almost all of the home events. I made a lot of great connections and met some wonderful people. I also got to photograph a lot of athletes that later went pro or won Olympic gold medals. Pretty cool.

It was also perfect because it allowed me to slowly build up my personal business. A lot of photographers or wannabe photographers have to work as waiters or bar tenders and do photography on the side. I had the great opportunity to be a full time photographer straight out of college and I've now been doing it for eight years.

The only downside of the job was that it didn't pay well. The job was so great that other photographers were offering to shoot for free. When I was blessed with my second daughter I needed to make more money and a raise was out of the question. So I decided it was time to go out on my own and I couldn't be more happy with my decision.

So I'd like to give a shout out to Ben Rider and give him a special thank you for landing me the job and giving me the opportunity to be a full time professional photographer.

After several hours of work, I repaired my blog. I hope you like the layout and hopefullly I'll be writing on it more often now.

I'm going to start a new category on my blog. It's called bits of me. Look here on occasion to find biographical information about me that you might not otherwise know.

Right now my blog looks a bit drab. In the next couple of days I'll have the redesign complete, so that it looks back to normal.

My blog just blew up on me!

I was finally writing a blog entry after who knows how long, and the whole database corrupted. Now I'm back to square one. But hey, maybe that's a good thing, since I wasn't blogging anyway.

So, it's a new start and new day and hopefully it means I'll be blogging more often now. We'll see.

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