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David & Ryan

David & Ryan

“Once upon a time there was a little boy, who wanted nothing more than to fall in love with another little boy, and be loved in return…”   Tears and tender moments are abundant at weddings. As a photographer, I have captured hundreds of these moments...
Tatanka Harvest

Tatanka Harvest

On November 11, 2017, I attended a Tatanka Harvest at the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp. in Porcupine, South Dakota. Wild bison, or Tatanka as the Lakota called them, once roamed North America in great numbers. Before white settlers came, an approximated...
Totality

Totality

I traveled to the Jackson Hole area for the solar eclipse on August 21st so I could try to photograph totality. I wasn’t sure if I would get any good shots, but I was excited to just be there to see and experience it. I went a few days early so I could go to...
Victory Day Celebration

Victory Day Celebration

Each year, indigenous tribes across America celebrate the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe Indians victory over General Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Battle of Greasy Grass). In Kiza Park on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota...
When Stars Align

When Stars Align

Most days are just like any other day. Last Sunday (July 17, 2016) was like most days, an ordinary day filled with people doing what they ordinarily did. I was just finishing up a photo shoot, one of my favorite kinds – we were making powerful images that...
Bernie Comes to SoDak

Bernie Comes to SoDak

On Thursday May 12, 2016 Senator Bernie Sanders visited western South Dakota, visiting first the Pine Ridge reservation and then Rapid City. I attended the rally in Rapid City and took some pictures. I will never forget the energy that day; the crowd was full of hope...
Hope

Hope

What is hope? hope \ˈhōp\ noun 1. the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope. 2. a particular instance of this feeling: the hope of winning. 3. grounds for this feeling in a particular...
Meeting Jim

Meeting Jim

I have a friend who lives in California named Leah. She grew up in the Black Hills, where I still live, and she looks at the photos I take of her home state. Over the years she has shared my work with other friends in California, one of them a man named Jim. She would...