Nicaragua to Date: Just a Pittsburgh photographer trying to capture the life around him.
Wow, its Wednesday already. The days fly by as we spend time in La Chureca (the city dump) and spend time as a group, worshiping, praying, and seeking God, and his purpose of this trip. As the days move on, the intensity of what we see continues to build. Yesterday, on a path in La [...]
Pittsburgh Restaurant and Portrait Photography: Bistro Soul: Chef Matty
My Dad has been working with a wonderful restaurant on the North Side of Pittsburgh called Bistro To Go. After meeting with him for lunch a few times and getting to know the owner Nikkie, and wonderful staff, I was asked to come and do some work for them on a few different levels. One [...]
Shooting for you- Slowing down to be better for your clients.
I cant wait for winter to come! My goggles, ski pants, boots, and snowboard, are all ready for the white stuff to come. Im so excited to get out on the slopes and start shooting some winter lifestyle, be it families playing and having fun, or kids throwing cork 9′s off of a big table [...]
Motorola Droid Hands on Review by a Pittsburgh Wedding Photographer
I’ve had the phone since Friday morning now, and im still learning all the things it can do. but here are my basic thoughts thus far. The phone is fast. Really fast. Internet browses and loads with a short lag, and then it hurries up and finishes loading the pages. I have been able to [...]
Pittsburgh Portrait Photography: Winter Lifestyle Family Sessions: Enjoying life, and getting ready for winter
Since winter is just around the bend, I’m getting ready to launch my new winter lifestyle sessions, where we spend a day skiing, sledding, hiking, snow tubing, or anything else that you like to do in the winter, and capture you and your family having a fun day together. The idea came to me when [...]
Pittsburgh Wedding Photography| Mother of Sorrows Murrysville: Jill and Eric-Part 1: Ceremony
Jill and Eric were married in Murrysville outside of Pittsburgh at the beautiful Mother of Sorrows Catholic church. We then headed into downtown Pittsburgh to shoot some fun portraits of the wedding party before heading to the Holiday Inn on McKnight Road for the reception and lots of dancing and partying. You guys made my [...]
WOW
SO today I decided to check out how my new Nikon D700 really performs iin low light situations. All I can say is WOW!!!! I’ve been using it at 6400 iso at weddings because alot of the churches that I shoot in are REALLY DARK. But I had never really pushed it all the way [...]
Still Moving
As I mentioned last week, I am still in the process of moving into my new apartment, and I do not have internet or my desk set up yet. Hopefully by the end of the week, but I am not sure if they will get there that fast. So today I am writing from my [...]
Cool actions and Textures
I recently found some cool actions that are free, as well as some cool textures. While many people use textures, I have never used them, but think that I am going to start shooting some of my own. Every once in a while, I like to create images that aren’t typically associated with my style [...]
One Republic
This week has been a crazy week for me. It is obviously Christmas time, and that means a ton of parties going on. This week has been exceptionally busy because I am shooting at Diesel every night this week. On Monday we started off the week with a KILLER concert by new group One Republic, [...]
Many of you are not familiar with the albums that I offer, and to show you the quality of the product, I wanted to show you the albums as they come. The first album is a Kiss Wedding Book. These are beautiful hand made albums, and they are what I use for an engagement book. [...]
I am a photojournalist working with Non-Profits and NGO's. Telling stories and helping to connect organizations with their donors through social media. 
