Photography
Mt. Rainier from Suntop Lookout
With the second clear day in a row, I really wanted to go somewhere and photograph Mt. Rainier. I did some quick research online and found a place called Suntop Lookout, a fire lookout approximately 5,270 feet above sea-level and about [...more]
Heather Lake
Michelle is on vacation with her family in Michigan, and I didn’t feel like wasting a beautiful weekend away sitting around at home. I was looking through a list of local hikes for something relatively short (as it was already noon) [...more]
Snoqualmie Lake
My favorite photo from our weekend trip to Snoqualmie Lake. The lake still had a lot of snow on it, but the little cove that we camped at was relatively shallow so the water had warmed up enough to melt a [...more]
Hike to Snoqualmie Lake
Michelle, Colby and I spent part of our July 4th weekend at Snoqualmie Lake. We made the approx. 8 mile trek to the lake Sunday afternoon, with a short side-trip to Otter Falls (look for the large rock cairn along the [...more]
Camp Muir – Mt. Rainier : 6/19/2011
Short video of our day trip to Camp Muir, complete with beautiful blue skies, views from the mountain above the cloud, and glissading back down the mountain. If you’d like to read more about the complete trip, click here to read [...more]
The Architecture at Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park in Seattle is a pretty cool spot in Seattle. Aside from having great views of the city and surrounding towns and suburbs, it hosts a collection of intriguing architecture of, you guessed it, an old gas manufacturing plant. [...more]
The Space Needle
Another photo from the evening shoot at Gas Works Park, this time of the Space Needle. I used my 70-300 f/4.5 telephoto lens so that I could fill the image with as much of the Space Needle as possible. The Space [...more]
The Seattle Skyline at Night
Michelle, PT and I went to Gas Works Park Thursday evening for a change of pace and to play with the new cameras (PT and I both, unknowingly, purchased the Nikon D5100 within about 4 days of each other). Took a [...more]
We’ve Moved To Seattle!
We pulled the trigger and moved to Seattle! After months of looking at potential cities to live in (Michelle did most of the work) we decided on the Seattle area, for a number of reasons: Job opportunities Access to outdoor activities [...more]
Caribbean Flamingo
Taking photographs at the zoo, and not having them look like photographs that were taken at the zoo, can be a challenge. The biggest challenge is avoiding any manmade objects in the background, which (in my opinion) really detract from a [...more]
The Philadelphia Zoo
I had the opportunity to visit The Philadelphia Zoo this weekend. Since it was the end of February, a lot of the animals weren’t out and about, hidden away from the cold temperatures and blistering winds. Here is a collection of [...more]
Sam Tootle on Mensa, 5.11d
I love rock climbing, and the New River Gorge is one of the premier rock climbing locations on the east coast. With thousands of sport and trad routes covering the full difficulty spectrum, there is something for everyone. For quite some [...more]
St. Lucia 2010
My parents visit St. Lucia on a regular basis, and in May of 2010 they decided to treat the entire family to a Caribbean vacation. We stayed at Anse Chastanet resort, which is located on the south western end of the [...more]
A Rocky Creek
This is one of those photos that I both love and hate. Plain and simple: I love the bottom half, and I hate the top half (continue reading to find out why). I was trying something different with this photo, and [...more]
New River Gorge – October 2009
The New River Gorge is one of the climbing meccas of the east coast. With thousands of documented routes to choose from, it’s easy to spend all day (for weeks to months on end) climbing something new. These photos are from [...more]
Crescent Rocks
Crescent Rocks is a climbing crag located on the Virginia – West Virginia state line at a place called Raven Rocks. With three faces to choose from, the location offers almost 30 mapped routes, along with several variations, providing a variety [...more]
The Overlook
About 45 minutes west of where I live there is a cliff face along the Appalachian Trail known as Raven Rocks. A small section of Raven Rocks is known as Crescent Rocks, and this area has become a popular climbing crag [...more]
Allatoona Lake
On the last day of our vacation in Atlanta we went out to Allatoona Lake for a day of fun on the water. Activities included jet skiing, water skiing, kneeboarding, and extreme relaxing.
Looking Glass Rock
Looking Glass Rock is located in the Pisgah National Forest in Brevard, North Carolina. Featured in this album is a climb called “The Nose”, which consists of four pitches and 500 feet of trad climbing.
Rappelling Down Looking Glass Rock
In September of 2009 I had the opportunity to do my first multi-pitch climb: the 4 pitches of The Nose at Looking Glass Rock. It’s about 400+ feet of relatively easy, 5.8-5.9 slab climbing that requires placing trad gear for fall [...more]
Sandrock Climbing Crag
The Sandrock Climbing Crag is located in Alabama and offers a wide variety of climbing opportunities for beginners and experts alike. The photos in this collection were taken over the course of a two-day trip to Sandrock with my cousin, his [...more]
Ball Python – Piper
Piper is my ball python. After building a small lightbox to photograph objects on white, I decided I would put her in there with a decorative tree and see what would result. She was very curious about being in the lightbox [...more]
1936 Rolls Royce 20/25 Sedanca-De-Ville
The company I work for produces a segment called “Motor Envy” for a network of monitors that are stationed in waiting rooms. We had the opportunity to create a short film about this 1936 Rolls Royce 20/25 Sedanca-De-Ville, and while we [...more]
Volkswagen GTI 337
This photo was taken during a photoshoot of a friend’s highly-modified Volkswagen GTI, shortly after he finished the work. He needed some new images to be displayed on a poster at an upcoming show. There are several aspects of this photo [...more]
