It was a beautiful Sunday morning. Before I got too deep into the never-ending to-do list, I decided that it was more important for me to get off my ass and shoot some pictures. I just finished my morning coffee and I knew I had the luxury of a little bit of free time. Instead of doing what I’ve usually done in the past and tell myself “I’ll do something creative later… after I workout, after I do the yard work, after I clean the garage, after, after, after”, I just jumped in my truck with nothing but my phone, drove a couple miles down the road, and took a walk on the beach.

This turned out to be a great decision. [Read more…]

I recently took my daughter Chloe into Boston for a photo walk around Newbury Street and Copley Square. We had been talking about going into Boston at different times over the past couple of weeks. The end of summer was fast approaching and we wanted to make this trip before she had to go back to school.

We had a great day that started with a trip to the Apple Store, followed by lunch at Sonsie, then a walk to the John Hancock Tower. We spent the most time walking around this building in an effort to try and capture pictures from every angle with our iPhones. The John Hancock tower is the tallest building in Boston. The glass exterior produces incredible reflections of the sky, clouds, and surrounding buildings. [Read more…]

As an exercise to help get my creative muscles moving again, I started using my iPhone 6s as my one-and-only camera. I needed to do something to get out of my own way and this seemed like a good way to both simplify things while at the same time impose some creative constraints on myself.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. – Igor Stravinsky

It’s been almost three months since I began this little experiment and I’m enjoying it so much that I continue to put off replacing my broken DSLR. Not only do I find myself more often looking for opportunities to capture interesting images wherever I happen to be, I now make much more of an effort to go out of my way during my daily commute to find cool scenes and subjects to capture. [Read more…]