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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

Because Love

Good leaders care about their people. They just don’t say they care, they actually do. And that is demonstrated by their actions. But...

Snowballs

We read, we write, we think, and we form something of a self. We live. We experience other people and events. And our soul is informed....

Honest Witness

You earned your acronym. You worked hard for it. You are to be congratulated, and celebrated, not for your title, but for your human...

Soul Houses

Housed in these packages our souls haunt the earth accumulating wisdom and experience like snowballs until they move on to...

Intent Shines Through

I tell people always not to worry about their skin or their hair. The focal point in any portrait is your eyes. There’s not much you can...

Guided Portraits

You are a story. And a portrait is a wordless version of that story with no beginning, no middle, and no end, There is no arc to the now....

Walk With Me

Not all portraits I do are indoors, in offices, in urban settings. Not all lines are straight. Sometimes something softer is called for....

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...

About Us

People assume I’m some sort of poet or artist but what I really love to do are team photos - portraits of people who work together. I’ll...

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...

The Power of Metaphor

Metaphors drive understanding. Through metaphor we don’t just see our connectedness, we feel it. For Marshall here, the metaphor is the...

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...

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