I was scheduled to shoot a holiday mantel makeover with designer Paige Gilbertson of Graphic Organic Design earlier this week. Gilbertson brought one of the most adorable (and smallest) design assistants I’ve ever seen, her seven week-old son Oliver.

For the…

Recently we had a photo shoot for the upcoming holiday gift guide. Lucie, a 3 year-old miniature shih tzu, served as our model for the scene with pet gifts.

Quiet, calm and not barky at all, we thought we’d found our…

My new nephew Drazen, just over a week old.

Big brother Cole admires his new brother.

I had the pleasure of taking a long weekend recently, boarding a plane, and visiting my little sister and her newly expanded family.  She gave birth…

I have lived in St. Louis since 2003, but until Post-Dispatch co-worker Christian Gooden mentioned Lone Elk County Park as a possible place to look for fall colors, I had actually never been there. I was so thrilled to find…

Recently I did a video on a preschool in University City that planted a
vegetable garden. Preschoolers work in the garden and eat the harvested
vegetables.

As the teacher was explaining to me how she uses the garden…

On Tuesday photo editor Lynden Steele and I were tossing around ideas for different ways to illustrate the heat. I scanned the newspaper and saw that the Humane Society had issued a heat warning for pets, and we decided to…

On Wednesday I went to the zoo to shoot Joe Knobbe, for a story about unrest in Madagascar, and how it is affecting the work that the St. Louis Zoo, and Missouri Botanical Garden scientists do there.

While photographing Knobbe feeding…

I’ve recently returned to work as a staff photographer after spending a
year at home with my first son, Eli.

After learning how to change diapers without getting peed on, function
without sleep, sing lullabies, and all the other fun things that come
along…