— The journal

Notes from between the rolls.

A working journal: long entries about the weddings I've shot, shorter entries about the cameras and the film, and the occasional note for couples thinking about photography. Updated when I have something worth saying.

— The archive

Older entries

Bowery wedding
— Weddings · March 2026

Devon & June, at home on Bowery.

An elopement in a fifth-floor walkup with twelve guests, a hot-plate dinner, and a deli bouquet. The pictures came out the way a candlelit room should look — warm, low, full of small kindnesses.

— 8-min read— 14 photographs
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Editorial light
— On film · February 2026

Why I still shoot Portra 800.

A short essay on Kodak Portra 800 — the film I push to 1600, the film I keep loaded in the second body, the film I'd shoot a wedding on in low light if I had to pick exactly one stock and never another.

— 5-min read— 9 photographs
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Catskills engagement
— Notes for couples · January 2026

What to actually wear for engagement photos.

The clothing question is the one I get most often. The short answer is: whatever you would wear to a long quiet dinner. The long answer is fifteen hundred words about texture, color, and what a Hasselblad does to soft fabrics.

— 7-min read— 6 photographs
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Costa Brava editorial
— Editorial · December 2025

Ten days on the Costa Brava.

Behind a twelve-page commission for Condé Nast Traveler. Five small hotels, ten days, no tripods. Notes on what the brief said and what I shot when I closed the brief and went out walking before breakfast.

— 11-min read— 22 photographs
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Hudson Valley wedding
— Weddings · November 2025

Lila & Henrik, and the tent that almost didn't.

An April Hudson Valley wedding that nearly drowned. Ninety guests, an orchard tent that warped in the afternoon rain, and a sky that broke open at six PM into the most generous light I've seen in three years.

— 9-min read— 16 photographs
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Brooklyn portrait
— On film · October 2025

The Hasselblad, twelve years in.

A long love letter to the 500CM I bought in 2013 from a retiring photographer in Cobble Hill. It has shot every wedding I've ever made. It needed a CLA last year and that was the longest two months of my professional life.

— 6-min read— 8 photographs
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Crown Heights ceremony
— Weddings · September 2025

Sloan & Ezra, Crown Heights.

A Saturday-afternoon Brooklyn brownstone wedding, sixty-five guests, ceremony in the parlor, dinner family-style at one long table down the front hall. The light through the south windows did all the work.

— 7-min read— 12 photographs
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Studio portrait
— Notes for couples · August 2025

Don't book a "first look."

A small piece of unsolicited advice. Why I don't recommend the choreographed pre-ceremony first look that became wedding-industry orthodoxy ten years ago, and what to do with that hour instead.

— 4-min read— 5 photographs
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Provence wedding
— Weddings · July 2025

Charlotte & Theo in Provence.

A vineyard wedding in early June, the cicadas already loud at lunch, eighty guests across three days. The bride wore the same dress at the welcome dinner she would wear at the ceremony — that detail, alone, told me what kind of wedding it would be.

— 10-min read— 19 photographs
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— By post, occasionally

The quarterly letter.

Four times a year I send a letter — three or four photographs, a long entry, sometimes a small note about availability. No drip funnel, no automation, no marketing. About 2,400 readers; you'd be welcome.