I have been busy and finally getting around to posting a few of my favorite images from this years Monterey Jazz Festival. Monterey Jazz Festival 2018 Artists-In-Residents Ingrid Jensen, left, and Tia Fuller warm up before taking the stage with the the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra on Sunday September 23, 2018. Photo © Monterey Jazz Festival/ [...]
I recently had the opportunity to photograph Jackie Nuñez, founder and program manager of The Last Plastic Straw, for Voices of Monterey Bay (VOMB). Nuñez's non-profit aims to eliminate single use plastic straws. Jackie Nuñez founder and program manager of The Last Plastic Straw holds a handful of single use plastic straws that she [...]
I photographed the Big Sur Marathon recently for the Monterey Herald. I have had the opportunity to photograph the event many times over the years and always look forward to the amazing scenery and great energy surrounding the 26.2 run up the Big Sur coastline. I have ridden up Highway 1 on my bicycle where I [...]
Here are some of the the images I shot at the Hutson and McCormick wedding at the Cowell Ranch Barn at the University of California Santa Cruz Farm. The event was especially cool because the venue was only just recently remodeled and a site where I studied organic farming as an undergraduate. [...]
I recently covered two events straddling the arrival the New Year for the Monterey Herald. The first was the First Night Monterey New Year Eve celebration. Carly O'Neal, 8, and her brother Caden, 5, don shades after completing party hats during the First Night New Year Eve celebrations at Colton Hall in Monterey on Sunday December [...]
I was recently looking through some of the photos I made at Emily and Justin's wedding in Aptos Village Park. I have also been looking at a good number of wedding photographers websites as I update and rebuild my own. One of the things that I came away with is a greater [...]
Recently I took some time to look back at the work that I have been doing over the past decade and a half. I sifted through images and decided to add some new stuff to my portfolio. I plan on sharing some thoughts along with the photos. Boxing is such an intense sport, and that [...]
While Wally has never considered himself a role model, his image deep in a Stockton Avenue barrel certainly pushed successive generations of local surfers deeper into the pit.
Paul and Tassa's post wedding kiss on Kailua Beach
Mike told me some great stories about how as a kid he used to hitch rides to surf on the old Del Monte Express train.