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Bend Oregon Photographer

VIP 2 // Tom Driebe

I met Tom in 2012. He’s is a bit of a renaissance man. Author, entrepreneur, restaurant owner, used car salesman… The later is his current occupation. In the city of Scranton, where I’m from, there’s a car lot on almost every street. In a city flooded with vehicles for sale, […]

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VIP No. 1 // Dan Garrison

VERY INTERESTING PERSON No. 1 ///  DAN GARRISON  “I had planned on retiring after 30 years. Then 9/11 happened and I decided to stay in a few more years. Two weeks after my 50th birthday I jumped out of a C-5 from 10,000 feet with 375 of my men and […]

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Life with the Stasi Tribe

A Family Lifestyle Photo Session in Charlotte, NC. Luke & Brittney are dear friends of ours that we visited back in March. They have 5 children. We have 2. With 11 people in the house, it was a busy atmosphere for sure. But really that’s just par for the course […]

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Interview with Nicole Mason

Interview with Nicole Mason Part 3 in the How to Start a Photography Business series. In the last two posts in this series, I started out with more of the visionary and legal aspects of starting your own photography business. If you’re new here, I would highly encourage you to […]

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Part 2 | Avoiding Legal Mistakes

How to Start a Photography Business | Part 2 | Avoiding Legal Mistakes Business Liability Insurance, Client Contracts, and other necessary legal stuff. In my previous article in this series, I used the analogy of board game squares to address the starting point (square 1) in How to Start a […]

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The Right Place at the Right Time

It’s what photojournalism is all about.  The moment I took this photo it was immediately one of my favorites from 2014… One month after their wedding day, the bride’s grandfather passed away. Last October I turned 30. It was a weird feeling. No longer considered part of the “college age […]

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