Photography is my way of being in the world.
I believe that my photos reflect internal states of being and my inner and outer landscape is connected.
In my photos I explore the nature of this connection to capture the beauty of a fully lived life.
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four pictures of june
The photo I keep coming back to is of the plant by my own front door. No concept borrowed from somewhere else. Just light moving through leaves, and me, finally looking without trying to gain anything from it.
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four pictures of may
This May I took four photographs. None of them are remarkable. But each one asked me a question: They had nothing to do with technique yet and everything to do with choosing.
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five pictures of april
Creating from within has two dimensions. One is to be connected with our inner being. The other is to truly be in the moment — not observing it, but part of it. The photographer and the photograph become one thing. Reflections on mindfulness, photography, and the practice of presence.
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five pictures of march
Last month, my wife Rafaela said something profound that deeply resonated with me: “I want to create my reality from my heart, not from my mind.” In March I photographed a bench, a cherry plum tree, a canal, a swan disappearing into dark water, and some dried grass that moved like waves. Nothing dramatic. Just…
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Embodied presence meditation
Embodied presence is the practice of coming home to yourself. It serves as a foundation for self-awareness, and the capacity to meet life with clarity and equanimity.
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four pictures from february
In this post I share four photographs from February and what they revealed to me about presence, safety, and the quiet tension between wanting to be seen and allowing yourself to simply be.
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five photos from january
January is over, and with it comes the usual moment to review New Year’s resolutions. I create themes for each year, and this year’s theme is: A commitment to my photography!
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a revelation in double exposure
This post is me thinking out loud about serendipity,. We’re living in a world where AI can generate anything on command, perfectly mediocre,, zero risk.There’s no adventure in that.
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four photos from december
Through this month’s photos I discovered what light means to me: that it’s born from darkness, and so are we. This is about the moment when the question changes from “How can I become better?” to “How can I grow?”
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four photos from november
There’s one phrase that keeps rising to the surface when I look back at November: I am allowed. I don’t yet fully understand what I’m allowing myself to do or to be, but I feel it is moving through me like those bare branches reaching toward the sky—determined and grounded even in this season of…