The Street Where I live.

I live on Division Street in Chicago and I love it. I love the street fairs, young life and delicious restaurants. For example, we went out and enjoyed the Do Division street fair and we just had to step out our front door and walk about five minutes west and we were immersed in a sea of hipster stink, loud music and bouncy castles. I love the convenience of the city, but definitely not the limited space. Although, I am okay with the lack of space to enjoy the convenience and the cachet of saying I live in the city. For now I basque in it's neon glow.

Cousins

My youngest son met his cousin for the first time back in May and we decided to have a little photo shoot. My niece is adorable and her eyes are just stunning. I loved meeting her and spending time with my family. Oh cuz.

Easters.

I love my boys. They are pretty darn cute, but they're even cuter with little bow ties on them. Unfortunately, it was too cold to photography the baby in the outdoors. His outfit wasn't worthy of the cold weather.

Mallis 3-24-2012

These are the Mallis and they were celebrating their daughter Isa's baptism and eighth birthday. The top photograph are the Mallis and the rest are VIvian's (mom) family who flew from all over the U.S. to see Isa get baptized. What a loving family! We went to Logan Square to take these photographs which is right across from the church and a little circle of land in the middle of a busy road.

#1 Son

Numerically speaking.

Kimmer 3-7-2012

Kim is the best for letting me practice my photography with her and I choose her, because she's uber hip and beautiful. I wanted to test the lighting at our church with my flash and this is what I got. I think in black in white this will do well for my upcoming shoot. Although, this is not black and white, I really like how these turned out. Also, I forgot to wear my glasses, so the one shot is out of focus, but I'm loving it still.

BFA 2006

These are sample of the 150 pictures from my BFA project. I went to Japan and photographed street life and used film exclusively. All through college I used film only anyway, but this was by far one of my favorite projects. Being half Japanese I felt like I was getting in touch of my other half. So the format of the show was 150 photos 5"x5" on a thin black shelf that wrapped around these "c" shaped walls. It was very linear. I felt like revisiting my photo past, so here you go!