2020 MacBook Air review: Sleek and solid, but slow
It's a dream writing machine, but a fast MacBook Air is still a slow computer.
2020 MacBook Air review: Sleek and solid, but slow
The coronavirus means business as usual for me, and that’s weird
The coronavirus means business as usual for me, and that’s weird
I've been training my whole life for this without even knowing it. It sounds a little absurd, but my life has literally not changed in the wake of closed schools, shuttered businesses, and social distancing following the spread of the novel coronavirus. As a...
2018 by the numbers
2018 by the numbers
On the whole, last year didn't seem overly positive, but there were several very big spikes in the excitement graph, like my first time traveling out of the country in a decade and a couple cool press trips. Here are some of the numbers. 102-ish articles published...
2017 in review, sort of
2017 in review, sort of
Last year, I talked about all the words I wrote in 2016 for my year in review. I also mentioned wanting to finish my book. Well, for 2017 I have no idea how many words I wrote. It took too much extra time to keep track of them, so I stopped. As for writing the...
Using a prism to bend light and blur reality
Using a prism to bend light and blur reality
Some people will shoot directly through it, others will use it to refract colored light onto their subject, but however it’s used, it tends to result in an image that blurs the line between realism and fantasy
This cider house rules: The new face of craft cider and the Hasselblad X1D
This cider house rules: The new face of craft cider and the Hasselblad X1D
Nick's gonna give me shit for calling him the new face of craft cider but, hey, that's marketing. So everybody check out Xylem Ciderworks, coming soon to the Portland area! The impetus for this shoot was simple desperation. After spending a week or so on...
How I work when I’m on the road
How I work when I’m on the road
As a freelance photographer and writer, I spend a lot of time on the road (not really). People often (never) ask me, Daven, how do you manage your photography workflow while traveling? Ah, well ponder no longer, as I am here to bestow upon you the glorious...
Finding creative indoor portraits when it’s too hot to go outside
Finding creative indoor portraits when it’s too hot to go outside
The Pacific Northwest may be known for its rain, but the past couple weeks have seen temperatures breach 100 degrees. In this heat, going outside to shoot portraits isn't just unbearable, it's also simply not practical. Nobody who's sweating that much wants to have...
2016 in review: Words by the numbers
2016 in review: Words by the numbers
Since June 2016, I wrote and published 146,067 words across 286 articles for four clients (not counting my personal work). I have no idea how this compares to the industry average, but if you had told me in May that I would write the equivalent of a couple of...