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freelance photojournalist, wedding photographer and scout leader in San Francisco, Calif.
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Golden
Scoutmaster Cliff Golden covers his good eye demonstrating his temporarily impaired vision in his left eye following his Troop 33 meeting at First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, Ill., on Monday May 3, 2010. The left eye had poorly reacted to a brain surgery Cliff recently had to remove a non-cancerous brain tumor.
Sensory underload
The American Sign language course at Northern Illinois University is now certified as a foreign language. Recently, I hung out with one of the NIU classes, taking pictures for the story.
The weirdest part of photographing a Sign language class is the silence. All you hear is the occasional laughter from a student when another tells [...]
Let it brew
I like to let my photos brew in a folder on my desktop for a few days or weeks before I post them here. That’s because I don’t know if the images I like are actually any good. Without a photo editor, I am left with gut reactions when it comes to editing decisions for [...]
Erik and Ashley
Thank you so much to Erik and Ashley for asking me to photograph their wedding at the Garfield Arboretum in Chicago. The venue was fantastic to shoot in and the night was really fun.




