Hi Friends, I recently had the privilege of photographing the team at Machine Precision Components: a custom machine parts fabrication firm in Southern California. These guys will create anything as I understand it, but they specialize in manufacturing custom precision parts for aircraft – some you may have heard of: say, the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning [...]
Location Corporate Photography – The Challenges and Rewards
BNI Diamond Club Business Portraits – Download ‘em Here!
Hi Friends, Thanks for trusting me with your likeness this morning! For those who had your portrait made, you can download them from the gallery below by clicking on the thumbnail, then right-clicking (Mac folks, control-click) on the larger image, then save to your drive. (I thought this would be easier than individually emailing everyone [...]
Recent Work: Corporate / Business Portraiture
Hi Friends, I’ve been doing a fair amount of corporate portraiture of late. Some are photographs on a neutral gray background for compositing purposes, and many are environmental portraiture – showing the client in his or her work environment. Thought I’d share a few of my recent favorites here… There are lots more corporate / [...]
Corporate Portrait Session: LA Legal Group
Hi Friends, Photographed several members of an LA-based legal practice yesterday. Their web folks needed a couple images right away, so I shot a few of my favorites off to them last evening. They used the following portrait of one of the principles in a composite for a promo push this afternoon: Great bunch of [...]
Mercedes Benz Classic Center Images Published!
Hi Friends, Last summer, I spent a week with my good friend, Royce, and my invaluable assistant, Cat, doing location portrait work at the Mercedes Benz Classic Center in Irvine, CA to be used in their web and print marketing materials. Being witness to this team of automotive artisans engaged in their craft was fascinating! They [...]
Tips for Using Your Wide Angle Lens More Effectively
Get Closer to Your Subject Robert Capa, renowned war photographer and photojournalist, said, “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” Getting close to your subject, filling the frame with what you want your viewer to focus on, creates interest. We’re naturally drawn to whatever is closest in the frame: the assumption being that [...]
Business Portraits – Attorney at Law
Hi Friends, I had the privilege this week of photographing my good friend, worship team compatriot, and distinguished attorney: Allen Brown. Allen has recently been elected president of his country club and needed some new professional portraits both for his practice and for his new role as “The Man.” We shot on location in his [...]
Website Muscle Team Portraits
Hi Friends, Over the past couple months, I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Sam Nelson and the team from Website Muscle: web designers extraordinaire, and a fun group of folks! I had the opportunity this week to photograph Sam, Tyree and Kate for their own website. We did a bunch of individual portraits, [...]
High-Key Business Portraits
Hi Friends, We’ve known Joel for probably 20 years. When he came to me to update his portrait for various business publications, I couldn’t help but recommend the very popular high-key look. Works great in all sorts of applications. For business portraiture, my preference is generally to go to the client – to photograph them [...]
I spent all day Monday in the Emergency Room…
…creating totally cool images for a medical device manufacturer! Hi friends! Had a terrific day shooting in the ER at LA County / USC Medical Center this past Monday with my good friend, Royce. We had arranged to set up a trauma bay for location images of a medical device in use. With the invaluable [...]



