Notes on photographing a life.

Stories about memory, fatherhood, family photographs, and the people I meet along the way. I add a new note every few weeks.

You deserve to be inside the pictures, too.

We remember taking the photographs, but we rarely appear in them. A note about handing over the camera and what changes when a parent finally appears in the family album.

A parent present in a family photograph

A Tuesday morning at home

The family settled into its Tuesday morning and soon forgot about the camera. The photographs came from what they already did together.

A family spending a Tuesday morning at home

Why I stopped saying “look here”

The quiet shift from directing families to following their rhythm, and what it changed.

A candid, documentary style family photograph

The shirt she outgrew

On the small ways childhood changes, often before we notice.

A child wearing a favorite shirt

Occasional notes for your inbox.

A few times a year, I’ll send a new story about family, memory, or photography. I only write when I have something worth sharing.