I picked up my first camera in 7th grade while living in a New Orleans suburb. 8th grade year I took photos around school and ended up with more photos published in the school yearbook than all of the staff photographers combined. I was the Assistant Photo Editor on yearbook in high school. After graduating in 1987, decided I didn’t want to be known as “the photographer”. I put my camera away. I got married in 1994. My wife booked a photographer that was a friend of hers in high school 13 months before our wedding. One month before the wedding, the photographer called my wife and said she got offered a lot of money to do a high profile wedding on the same date as our wedding, so she wasn't going to be able to do ours. She offered to send an associate of hers, someone we didn’t know, to do our wedding. We fired her and ended up finding another photographer last minute to do our wedding. We had 9 people on each side of us in our bridal party. The photographer used multiple lights to light us up for group photos, but one of the lights misfired most of the time. When we got our photos back, a lot of people in our bridal party were dark as a result due to the lack of light. The photographer would not admit to having issues, and refused to do anything about it. This is when I decided that I could do better. I pulled my camera out and decided to start taking photos again. A short while later the sister of one of my wife’s friends approached me about doing their wedding. They didn’t have any money, but offered to buy the film, let me shoot it, and they’d handle the developing. That is how I started doing weddings.

A couple of years later I took on a partner and we started doing weddings together. During an 10 year run that ended when Katrina hit in 2005, we shot an average of 6-8 weddings a year most years. After a brief time relocating to Boston, we moved to Houston in 2007. I was coaching our son’s baseball team for the 13 seasons he played, as well as being involved in 3 seasons of my daughters softball career. I was a very involve parent with both kids and worked with their high school theater and choir departments in various capacities including doing a lot of photography. I joined up with a kids sports photography company when my son stopped playing baseball in 2013, and continue to work professionally for that company now going into my 11th year. A large number of Saturday mornings I will be on a sports field somewhere with a camera in my hand taking photos.

I am also a music enthusiast, and a drummer in a hard rock band. I helped my son start his own band in 2017 while recording an EP for the band I was in at the time. That led me to becoming a live music photographer. I continue to pursue live music photography as a hobby, and have started working on music videos as well. Follow me on Instagram and Facebook to see my most recent work (links are at the bottom of this page).

Weddings have always been my first passion when it comes to my photography side. I have a fun, no nonsense approach to handling wedding photos. First and foremost, I consider my job to get the photos and get them done quickly so as not to waste time on your big day. I work with you ahead of time on what we are going to do, where we are going to do it, and we come up with a list of photos we need. Once it is time for photos, anyone on that list belongs to me. I will teach folks how to pose, let everyone know that I can and will turn Drill Sergeant if needed, but the idea is to get photos done and not waste any time. We spent over an hour taking photos at my wedding reception. I shoot for 30 minutes or less as my goal, and hit it almost every time. My record is 72 photos in 22 minutes with 9 people standing on each side of the bride and groom. No nonsense, get it done, let you enjoy your special day. That is my goal. I apparently made enough of an impression once that a bride called me a number of years later to do her second wedding.

In addition to the “traditional” wedding photos, I have some “fun” photos I offer if a couple is up for it. There are samples here on my website. Some of my favorite non-traditional photos involve the bride and or the bridal party in sunglasses. It is not unusual when the bride is being toasted to see the traditional photo of the bride being toasted, only to see the next photo of the bride being toasted and seeing the bride with an admittedly empty champagne bottle acting like she’s drinking straight from the bottle while being toasted. Again, this type of photo isn’t for everyone, and it isn’t something I push, but it is something I have done, enjoy doing, and it makes for fun and memorable photos from your wedding should you choose to try something like that.

Being married 30 plus years myself, our wedding album still sits on our coffee table. Your wedding photos will be the thing that you go back to time and time again. I want to make sure your photos are something you will enjoy looking at long after your wedding.