A few weeks back I was contacted by a student at Eastern Oregon University asking if they could interview me for a paper they were writing for Leadership class. First of all, I let him know he might find a more interesting subject to interview if this thing was for a grade, but that I would love to help him out. He just sent me a copy of his paper and wow, its probably some of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me. If your bored, take a look (after the jump, reprinted with permission.). It’s a little long as it was written for a college class but I appreciate the kind comments. Thanks Sean.

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Last night I taught a small lighting class for a group of 6 photographers wanting to learn a little bit more about using off camera flash outdoors. Lucky for me, I share a building with an awesome dance studio and a few of the teachers have a dance group called Remix. They perform all over town and needed some new photos so they got all dressed up and modeled for us. I shot this at the end of the class in the road in front of the studio. Milwaukie traffic will never be the same!

Today, the Portland Timbers introduced the new head coach for next years MLS team. Besides having a big press conference and talking to all the media, he gets to get his photo shot by me. I kid I kid. I setup a little studio in a conference room at Adidas and shot a bunch of stuff. Here is one of my favs. Cool dude looking forward to working with him.

Kit Taylor plays the piano, and is really freaking awesome at it. Besides being a solo artist, playing at places like Portland City Grill (check out this video of him playing Lady Gaga at the grill), and teaching youngsters the in’s and outs of the ivory keys, he plays in my favorite local band, Intervision. He’s also just a really cool dude. He hired me to shoot some promo photos of him and I was happy to do it. We wanted to shoot him with a Grand Piano, but those aren’t easy to come by so we found a church willing to let us shoot. Next we just had to light the place to not look like a church! I also noticed a sweet red door at the front entrance so we shot outside too. Here are a couple of my favs. If you reading this on Friday night, Intervision is playing a show at Jimmy Mak’s tonight. Go check them out.

A few photos from Randy and Catrina’s wedding last weekend at the Cedar Springs Country Estates in Sandy. The venue is very cool. Stadium seating, big open area surrounded by tons of trees, I really liked it. And the people where super cool too! Loved all the color and details. I have so many favorite images from this wedding I wish I could post them all.