I demoed my light painting workflow at the local Art + Code Meetup Group held at Leadpages in Minneapolis, MN. Using LED strips, 3D printed props, post production graphics software, and few Leadpages programmers as impromptu models. I showed the audience that they too can create magical light paintings that are great for unique family photos, corporate portraits, and of course ad campaigns.

This Land is a Kickstarter Project started by a group of Macalester College students. I served as their Kickstarter advisor for their children’s book project, “This Land”. Helping the students film and edit their important Kickstarter video, page images, and campaign strategy. The goal of the project was to teach children the concept of empathy.

This Land successfully reached their funding goal on Kickstarter and has since gone on to donate books to the Pajama Program. Today you can find This Land at Barnes & Noble.

Alpha Training is one of the newest divisions at Life Time Fitness. I was the photographer assigned to establish the look and feel of the Alpha Training Division imagery for use in their “Master Brand”. I came up with a distinctive and energetic look and feel that evokes a feeling of a “tough” training session. These images were used on the We Are Alpha website and on various social media campaigns.

NE Minneapolis is the home to one of the most talented artists in Minneapolis—Zoran Mojsilov. He is a genius sculptor and illustrator. This beautiful and interesting sculpture can be found today as the center piece and attraction at Can Can Wonderland in St. Paul, MN.

Pexels is a great resource if you have a need another source for stock images. You don’t have to pay for the images-though a coffee now and then would be super awesome—the images in my Pexels Portfolio here are free for you use :) & because my father came down with cancer and is a cancer survivor, half of all donations goes to cancer charities-Cheers!

Victoria Sorone is a best known as “Miss Teen Wisconsin”, and more recently as one of the top Fashion Week Models by Vogue Magazine. For an updated look to her portfolio, We decided that light painting would provide a definite edge in standing out from the pack. This really assisted our charismatic beauty to get noticed even more for fashion and brand modeling positions.

It’s the Italian word for “engine”—meaning a car in actual language usage. I helped the Macchina team get 567% funded on Kickstarter. No small feat for an IoT (Internet of Things controller) as the success rate for tech projects on Kickstarter is under 17%. Never tell me the odds :) I strategized and organized the Macchina’s team 30 day crowd funding campaign and was super successful. This project is one of my all time favorite projects.

It’s no secret that if you need to purchase amazing images for your brand. blog, company, magazine or product—one of your first choices is iStockphoto! I’m proud to be an iStockPhoto contributor—you can find my iStockPhoto Portfolio here! A purchase of an iStockPhoto image from my portfolio helps to support my photography endeavor. Thanks so much for your support :)

RAD (Reptile, Amphibian, Discovery) Zoo was founded in 2009. It is a privately funding zoo that focuses on curating an interesting menagerie of reptiles and amphibians.

Last winter my family and I visited the RAD Zoo and got a great opportunity to get an up-close view of Crocodiles, Snakes, Iguanas-Oh My!

Your company’s image is important! Your brand is important! Your head shots are super important! After all, perception is reality for many businesses.

I strive to create unique indoor and weather permitting—great outdoor head shots of C-Suite Executives and soon to be promoted C-Suite Executives around the Twin Cities area.

So far, I’ve created C-Suite portraits for 13 companies, and all of them are on the Fortune 500 list as of 2019. In fact, I see quick a few of the executives use my photos for their head shots on their actual LinkedIn profiles—I can’t get a better compliment than that :)

Let’s take your corporate head shot today!

It’s no secret that if you are using graphics software for your brand, blog, company, magazine or product—one of your first choices is the Creative Cloud Suite! I’m proud to be an Adobe Stock Photos contributor—I’ve been contributing since the early Fotolia days (during this time, I was experimenting with the Gestalt design principles and color theory), you can find my Adobe Stock Photos Portfolio here! A purchase of an Adobe Stock Photos image from my portfolio helps to support my photography endeavor. Thanks so much for your support :)

One of the first stock photo agencies that I worked with was Bigstock Photos. They’re a great resource for stock photos! I’m proud to be an Bigstock contributor—you can find my Bigstock Portfolio here! A purchase of an Bigstock Photo image from my portfolio helps to support my photography endeavor. Thanks so much for your support :)

I provided principal videography and photography for MassageNerd.com, the largest massage therapy resource website. The core set of videos that I have created for teaching massage therapy to aspiring massage therapists have gone viral. The most popular video gained over 36 million views and counting on YouTube.

MassageNerd.com has become somewhat of a social media phenomenon and has even earned a well deserved spot in the YouTube pavilion in the 2017—The Emoji Movie!