My good friend Enrique hosted a toy drive benefitting Beaverton Aloha Park elementary. As a center piece to the evening there was to be live music featuring the band Cilantro. This very sophisticated sounding band combining sounds of traditional latin rythems and mixes them with Jazz and even a little Spanish flamenco borrowings, I have heard the term Fusion in the past, and that would be accurate, but don't quote me on that one, I am no musician, I get enough in trouble with

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to work on a portrait session with Brian Lindstrom for a featured interview for the Street Roots. Brian is a known Portland film maker known for his documentary "Alien Boy" that follows the case of the death of James Chasse while being arrested by Portland police officers and a Multnomah County officer. The case spured a wave of protest over police brutality while underlining the officers poor trainning on managing cases of mental illn

It's the holiday season and as busy as it gets for an event photographer. However it is worth finding a spot in the day to finally write and launch my blog and get an opportunity to talk a bit more in depth about specific projects, talk about photography in general, or just share a bit of my life behind the camera. Also a way to make the site a bit more playful and give it more dynamic content other than the constant gruelling effort of updating this or that other portfolio p