Monthly Archives: February 2014

Kendall Hanna at Patrick Dougherty’s Saplings

I met this beautiful soul at a pivotal time in my personal life. Not long before, I had just met another crazy creative, Ismael Burciaga. I learned that Ish put on this designer’s conference called Circles. I had plans to be somewhere else that weekend but there was nowhere else I wanted to be, and everything inside of me knew it. All the amazing creatives I’ve watched online through the years were coming to this thing. I felt so out of the loop, and that’s because I was. Worrying about all the wrong things regressive to my career and my own life passions. I was …
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Patrick Dougherty Saplings in HDR

I am simply amazed with Patrick Dougherty’s Sapling architecture bit at Hermann Park. It is a perfect thing. Come to find out, this guy out of North Carolina goes around sprinkling awesome everywhere he goes, sculpting these things of all shapes and sizes. I grabbed my fun photographer friend, Kendall and asked her to take photos with me there. When I walked up on this last weekend while out on a bridal shoot, I felt like I was in the movie Braveheart [only my favorite movie of all time]. I felt the slow rumble in my chest as “Frrrrrrrrreeeeeedddooomm” came bellowing out. Oh well, live a …
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Hotel Zaza Wedding Reception, Houston :: Vintage vs Vivid

I had the simple honor to photograph a beautiful couple at Hotel Zaza in Houston not long ago. I found myself quietly taking in their perfect fashion staples, such as Joe’s hat, and Erica’s elegant birdcage veil. I found myself gravitating towards the style I personally enjoy [twenties] and have since fallen into a fine debate on the vivid style I’m so well known for vs the vintage or retro fad that all “real” photographers shunned our digital age for during post process. What with all the Pinterest whimsicals and history repeating itself through the Roaring Twenties flutter, I don’t know that this vintage thing is …
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Engagement Cinema :: Kim Thai with Andrew Vaughn

Today marks the first push off into cinema for the year and I couldn’t be happier to share with you the Vietnamese Engagement Ceremony of Kim Thai to her fiance, Andrew Vaughn. Though originally from Houston, Kim and Andrew now live in New York. They are an amazing and beautiful couple together and I hope you enjoy this vid! I am looking forward to shooting cinema for their Wedding Day in May alongside the incredibly talented photographer, Dan Dalstra.

Back in the fall, I also created a promo video and new website for Rise Cupcakes in Friendswood, Texas. The video was used in a submission to the …
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