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Blog

This space has a little less to do with weddings and more to do with my other photography projects, my travels, interviews with folks I've met, and my art projects. Enjoy and thank you for reading!

P.S. I have guides for photographers here, and wedding photo location guides here!

ICE Watch Northwest Arkansas Facebook group page with protest cover photo and 37.6K members

How I Used Social Media to Start the Largest ICE Watch Group in the South

Here's why I did it, how you can do it, and why you actually can make a difference if you try. I'll share some insights from a career in social media that can help your movement, as well as some lessons I learned the hard way.

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A Quick Creative Portfolio

This is a very quick showcase for my writing and design work. I'm including some of my work for Ozark Natural Foods Co-Op, About The River Valley Magazine, and others.

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White Dodge van parked on a roadside with Mount Rainier in the background

Life In A Van

After winding down my photography career in 2020 and working seven years at the University of Arkansas as a research technologist, I decided to finally return to the life I always dreamed of living.

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White 1999 Dodge Ram van with open side door in a parking garage at night

Building A Dajiban

Do you know what a Dajiban is? In Japan, racers started the tradition of buying these specific vans to haul vehicles, motorcycles and parts. In time, they began a series of track days using the vans themselves! Dajiban is a shortening of "Dodge Van." It's a whole thing.

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Loaded Royal Enfield motorcycle parked on a red dirt canyon overlook road in Utah under a wide dramatic sky

Ten Days Riding The American West

Ten days on a Royal Enfield featuring windmills, thunderstorms, the Million Dollar Highway, the Bonneville Salt Flats, dirt riding in Mexican Hat on a bald tire, and a long trip back home.

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Yellow flowering canola field under pale blue sky, minimalist No Man's Land prairie landscape on the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles by The Nikon Kidd

No Man's Land

A series of minimalist landscapes from the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles

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Black and white rally car cutting through dust during a rally photography weekend

Adventures In Rally Photography

A year spent chasing the American Rally scene!

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Vegetable flatbread photographed for Ozark Natural Foods

Life as the Ozark Natural Foods Photographer

In January, during the slow season, I took a job as the photographer, social media coordinator, and webmaster for the Ozark Natural Foods Co-Op in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Black Nissan Skyline photographed in black and white inside a parking garage

The Lucky Cat Collective

Avid readers of my blog will know that I do automotive photography on the side and during weekends that I do not have wedding shoots scheduled. I always keep the businesses separate, and I wanted to announce the launch of my new website.

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Large flag-lined march through Oceti Sakowin camp during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests

The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

Documentary photographs from Standing Rock, Oceti Sakowin camp, and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

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Portrait from The Nikon Kidd - Collected Interviews documentary project in Port Townsend Washington

The Nikon Kidd - Collected Interviews

Between 2014 and 2016 I travelled some 20,000 miles by train, thumb, and van. I didn’t set out with a particular mission. I just wanted to escape small-town Arkansas, quit my job stocking shelves at Walmart, and experience the world.

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Blue Ford Econoline van on a Kansas roadside from The Nikon Kidd Original Journey hitchhiking and vanlife archive

The Nikon Kidd - Original Journey

I recently found a backup of my old computer's hard drive and all of these photos of my hitchhiking, train hopping, and vanlife trips! I've got such fond memories of this time. This is how "The Nikon Kidd" started. I wasn't a professional, I didn't know how to use a camera, and I certainly wasn't shooting weddings. Those things would come later.

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