About ten years ago, we adopted two kittens a few months apart. They were exactly what you’d expect: lively, playful, and often nocturnal, with no regard for our sleep schedules or personal space. I vividly remember being jolted awake from a deep sleep by a mystery object sliding across our dresser, followed by the loudest […]

Every January for as long as I can remember, I’d make a list. Not just goals. A complete overhaul of how I’d live life. I was going to wake up at 5am. Do yoga. Make a green smoothie. Write down 24 things I’m grateful for while I drink the smoothie and swallow a fistful of […]

October 2025 was magnificent, according to this photographer and exactly zero news outlets. When the weather is crummy, that’s all anyone wants to talk about. But a perfect October in Boston? Crickets. The weather didn’t just cooperate, it acted like a friend that had access to my Google Calendar. Only one session out of 20 […]

There’s a photo I took a while back that’s stayed with me—not because it’s technically perfect, but because of what it holds. It shows my mom and my daughter laughing together. A real laugh. One of those big, open, surprised-by-joy laughs that kids are so good at pulling out of people. What you can’t see […]

From Herpetologist Dreams to a Different Dream Job: Lincoln, MA Photographer When I was 10, I told E.O. Wilson I wanted to be a herpetologist. (That’s someone who studies reptiles and amphibians—not herpes, just to clarify.) Mostly I think I just really liked discovering and catching frogs, toads, salamanders, turtles—whatever I could get my hands […]

We did a maternity shoot on a perfect late summer day at Plum Island, with my wife, our three-year-old, and enough snacks to hopefully prevent a full toddler mutiny. Doing maternity photos with a toddler is basically an Olympic sport, especially when you’re both the dad and photographer. Three-year-olds are newly minted egos wrapped in […]

Leaves > Fireworks. Don’t @ me. Over the 4th of July weekend, I visited my sister in a small town in upstate New York. We made a plan to go to the big community fireworks display. I thought it would be a fun, memorable thing for my 3-year-old. Classic small-town summer: nice beach by a […]

I keep thinking about that walk with Mae, the one where she connected the cycle of nature to her Grandpa Dean so naturally. There was something in her certainty that stayed with me. Not just the sweetness of it, but the truth of it. Everything changes. Our bodies, our abilities, the people we love. Even […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a conversation with my daughter that stopped me in my tracks. That moment made me think about something I’ve been carrying for almost two years now. My dad was an art professor and accomplished artist—someone whose work hangs in museums, who wrote books about creating, who taught for […]

Yesterday, my daughter and I went for an actual walk. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but if you have a preschooler, you know what I mean. For the past couple of years, “going for a walk” has meant stopping every three feet to examine a stick, having a meltdown about the wind blowing, […]