Category: Enchanted Exposures
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Palace of Versailles (2019) — where the halls were shoulder-to-shoulder, everyone had a selfie stick, and my patience was hanging by a thread dipped in gold leaf. So I did the only sane thing: I looked up. And somehow captured the one moment, in the entire palace, where another human being wasn’t in the frame.…
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This was taken at a Sunflower Festival 2022 at KC Pumpkin Patch in Kansas City, Kansas. The air smelled like BBQ, the sunflowers were thriving, and I briefly believed I had been chosen by the photography gods when someone dropped a camera filter. I found it and celebrated. And then…immediately lost it. This skeleton perfectly…
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This candid was captured during my Cinema II class—a classmate dancing in the rain between takes. I didn’t plan it, but the motion blur ended up turning the photo into something dreamlike… like a frame from a memory you can’t quite replay, only feel. Disregard the black border—I used to add them to all my…
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I snapped this shot during my Cinema II class—an experiment in perspective and pattern. I loved how the lines of the buildings pulled the eye toward the center, creating a kind of man-made symmetry against the clean blue sky.Sometimes the best frames are the ones you find by just looking up. Disregard the black border—I…
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A perfect spider web spun right outside my house, catching the sunlight just right. Fun fact: spiders rebuild their webs almost every single day—dismantling and recycling the silk to create a fresh one by morning.There’s something poetic about that…quiet persistence woven into every strand.
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For the longest time, Buzz Lightyear proudly flew from my Trailblazer’s antenna—a tiny sentinel of adventure. This shot was taken in Empire, Michigan, not far from where Tim Allen himself later performed at The Bay.Guess the universe really does have a sense of humor.
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In honor of Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade getting married earlier this month, here’s a throwback to the shot I took of him performing at the last nationwide Vans Warped Tour. A moment frozen in sweat, sound, and summer nostalgia—before the curtain finally closed on an era.
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This shot was taken from the Nuʻuanu Pali Lookout, where King Kamehameha I won his pivotal battle in 1795 by driving opposing warriors off the cliffside. One of the many breathtaking moments I captured on my honeymoon to Oʻahu in October 2016, later used for all the promo for my last photo business, Aloha Media…