natural light portraits | the-light-house

Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you.

Lao-tzu

The Ubiquitous You

Each person is unique, but each person is connected to every other and has more similarities than differences. Without over-stating it...

Album Cover Gravitas

I can’t take everyone out to the Marin Headlands for portraits. I wish I could. The light is sublime. And the backgrounds are so...

Fleeting Glances

I know that we are so much more than we see. We are not our photographs, not our reflections. Yet, in those things there is an aura of...

Joy Bombs

Yesterday, I was in someone’s living room and I was looking at them through the camera, and we were talking. I was asking questions,...

You, Classic

If you’re reading this then my strategy worked. I shot a photograph intriguing enough to pique your curiosity. This particular location...

The Invitation

Do I want to meet this person? Is their photograph asking me to sit down and talk? I’ve said before that a good portrait beckons...

A Portrait of Eyes

What if we only looked at each other’s eyes and nothing else? Forget the head and the body and the skin. Our eyes, those soul gateways,...

Shooting Wide Open

Sometimes it takes a minute. Sometimes an hour or more. But that connection, that authentic bridge between two human beings always does...

YOU are The Lighthouse

You’re the beacon. You’re the source. Each person is filled with a thousand suns. I chose the name The Lighthouse to describe people....

The Light House Photography | Marin