Stonehenge Replica
Odessa, Texas
Digital Workflow
This workflow uses a low-ISO setting and a flat digital profile to maximize sensor dynamic range and give you total manual control over your edits.
The Utility of Empty Space
Modern work demands constant oversight, requiring us to keep systems running day after day. Yet there are very few places where we can simply be, without anything being asked of us in return.
Serious Play
Seriousness is frequently mistaken for importance, turning work, study, and creative projects into rigid obligations. Removing humor from those pursuits eliminates the capacity for discovery.
On Common Ground
People are not as far apart as it seems; we stare through different windows, shaped by different routines. Sometimes we are flying thirty thousand feet above places like the Midway Drive-in, where the marquee sits between Turkey and Quitaque—fittingly, a midpoint between New York and Los Angeles.
White-Pool House
Odessa, Texas
Today
A simple note. If there’s something you want to do, do it today, not tomorrow, not five years from now. Do it today. This is it. This short moment is all anyone gets. Spend your time wisely. Work wisely.
The Universe Observing Itself
We are the universe standing in our shoes.
Overpass
Monahans, Texas
The Ethics of Seeing
This practice is built on the belief that photography is a way to stay tethered to the real world. Using a detached, topographic approach, the work records the landscape exactly as it is — without the distortion of sentiment or the distraction of escapism. Whether the subject is beautiful or uncomfortable, the goal remains the same: to provide an honest, standard-lens account of the places we inhabit. This is not art as a hiding place; it is art as a form of witnessing.
Old Orla
Orla, Texas
Andrews Highway
Odessa, Texas
Beyond Awful
Whenever I see a perfect picture, I’ll think, surely this isn’t real.
One Camera, One Lens
Photography starts before you even pick up a camera. When I'm shopping for cameras, photography is telling me that I want to take pictures. It is an impulse to frame what is sitting right in front of you. But the gear obsession is a distraction, and an ambient light meter may help your photography more than new gear. You slow down, measure the light falling on the pavement, and pay attention to what matters.
A Road End
Odessa, Texas
Bumbling
I embody something infuriating — an average person doing something. The combination of being run-of-the-mill and doing something creative is a frontier.
Virtual Movements
With enough resolution, we can crop in, move a frame around, and simulate a view camera’s movements in post — including rise, fall, and shift.
Big Bend
A plan to construct a physical barrier across Big Bend would be unpopular.
Going to Town
A black-and-white picture of small-town Texas is sort of what western swing music looks like — if that makes sense.
Clearing the Air
Setbacks and errors teach us quickly that we have the capacity to keep moving. Failure is not a dead end; it is a regular part of the terrain. When things break down, it strips away the noise and forces you to look at the raw material of what you have left. You learn what you can handle by standing your ground and adjusting to the facts as they are.