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The Light House Photography | Marin
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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
Love for Sale
I don’t like to post images that look like ads. But I am still trying to figure this out, using social media to promote my work, to...
Come As You Are
Tell me what you think. Tell me how you relate to the world. Don’t mince words. Life is too short and too dangerous for that. By...
We Are Stories
There are so many facets of us that no one image can capture our nuance. And that’s what we’ve lost lately, that nuance. Everything is so...
Feel the Zeal
A company is made of people. It is the people who define the brand. If you can feel the passion, feel the zeal, your connection to that...
A Galaxy So Close You Can Touch It
We can’t possibly know what’s going on inside a person. But there’s a whole universe in there, an entire lifetime of experiences and...
Everything is Everything
The other night I was watching The Sopranos and there was a scene with Hal Holbrook where he plays a scientist who, while watching a...
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...
The Truth That Can't Be Seen
In photographs we sometimes glimpse that little spark of life in us. There’s something beyond perception, beyond what we can see with our...
A Whiff of You
Presence. That’s what I’m going for. I want you to feel as if you’re standing in front of the person in the photograph. I want them to...
The Gateway to You
This is the first portrait I ever got paid for. I got $50 which is not a livable wage for all the time and work involved but what I...
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,...
Choosing The Right Feeling
When I look at a face in a photograph I want to feel the person, get a real sense of their spirit. For this to happen they have to behave...
How to Create a Visceral Portrait
I shot all these DBI portraits with a 50mm 1.2. For most of you that means nothing. But do you notice how there’s almost a 3D quality to...
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