Project file
Friends, mostly
Reno, NV
The story
Whatever the friend and the evening called for. Sometimes that meant renting steel wool and finding a bridge with the right sightline; sometimes it meant walking into a field at golden hour with no plan at all. No two shoots here look alike, and that's the point — this is the work with no client to please but myself.
No metrics on this one. The return was a good evening, a few photos I'm still proud of years later, and a reminder of why I picked up a camera in the first place.
Deliverables
Creative Direction
No brief, no client, no deadline — just me, a friend, and whatever light we could find that day. Some of these were planned for weeks (the motorcycle needed steel wool and a permit-free bridge); some were completely improvised. The one rule was to actually try something, not just point a camera at a pretty face.
PRODUCTION NOTE
The Shoots
A night shoot on a train bridge with a motorcycle and fistfuls of lit steel wool. An afternoon exploring an abandoned, graffiti-covered overlook. A quiet golden-hour session under the trees. A friend wading into a river in a white lace dress at dusk. Different friends, different years, different reasons — but every one of them started with "want to go take some photos?"
Field Notes
These are the shoots I'd do even if no one ever saw them. That's the difference between this page and the rest of the site — everything else here is for a client. This is for me.
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