Stories From Behind The Art

This piece was created as part of the San Diego Splendor collection—a growing body of work that reflects the beauty, history, and quiet character of this region. Designed as a fine art print, it offers a way to bring that sense of calm, place, and memory into your everyday spaces. Whether displayed in a living room, office, or hallway, it becomes more than décor—it becomes a reminder. Of where you’ve been.Of what you value.Of the beauty that still stands, even as everythin

Most people know San Diego by its coastline — the easy, eternal blue of it. And the coast is worth every word ever written about it. But those of us who roam with a camera and a quiet sort of hunger know that the real story of this place is the journey from the sea to the sky to the sand. It is a journey that unfolds over less than a hundred miles, and yet it crosses ecological worlds as distinct as anything you might find driving from Maine to Georgia. San Diego Splendor liv

Before the horse, before the camel, there was this animal. Around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, as the Sahara expanded and ancient peoples scrambled to survive, they domesticated the African Wild Ass — and the world changed. Their bones have been found entombed with pharaohs at Abydos, Egypt, bearing the skeletal wear of animals that carried heavy loads across desert distances. They moved the turquoise that adorned queens. They hauled the grain that fed cities. They were, as one

Nine acres. A thousand years. Twenty-five souls. Some places do not need to be grand to be unforgettable. They only need to endure — and to know, without being told, exactly who they are.

Mac : Stories Worth Telling There are some subjects that capture your eye…and others that capture your attention. And every now and then, one captures your heart. “Mac” began, quite simply, because he caught my eye. I photographed him because he was everything you hope to find in a subject—beautiful, vibrant, stately, and just a little bit fun. Birds have always fascinated me, and a hyacinth macaw in full presence is hard to overlook. But somewhere along the way—from lens to