Minimalist Roots

My awareness of symmetry has been with me since I was a kid. I would walk sidewalks trying to hit the space between the cracks evenly with each step and count how many steps it took to get to the next block. My favorite spot to shoot a basketball was from the top of the key, […]

SXSW 2015 in Photos

South by Southwest is over and done. The crowds are gone. The traffic is better. My sleep pattern is coming back. And my lower back is destroyed. It’s hard to recap a week where Miley Cyrus sprayed me with champagne through a squirt gun and Big Sean tripped over me while trying to get off […]

Holi Beards and Swimming Basketballs

Here’s a collection of what I’ve been up to the past few weeks—including a mustache and beard competition, state swimming meet, state basketball, UT basketball and coverage of the Hindu Holi Festival.

Unrelated

So these photos have nothing to do with each other, except that I had a photo pipe dream that the Boy Scouts parade would somehow wander over to the Undie Run and I’d get a great reaction shot. It never happened, so now I’m just mashing the photos together. It was a good day for some […]

Beer Mile World Championships 2014

What do you get when you mix chugging beer and running? Puking. Lots of puking. Tagged along with the King of Weird Sports, Sol Neelman, to shoot the Beer Mile World Championships. Runners started the race by chugging a beer, then had to chug another beer every 400 meters. The winning time for the men’s […]

Austin’s Paranormal Investigators

Everything within me wants to start this post with a Ghostbusters reference, but I’ll refrain. The other night I followed around a team of paranormal investigators as they crept around a downtown nightclub that the owner suspects is “haunted.” They brought energy rocks. And a knife. And a spray bottle of holy water. There was also […]

Deep-Fried in the Heart of Texas

At the Texas State Fair it is probably more surprising you can pet a zebra than eat one, deep-fried and covered with bacon on a stick.

The fair is everyone’s chance to live in mythological America. Everything is comically large because things are supposed to be comically large. The skies are almost too blue; the best-in-show sheep too white. Even the rabbits are gluttonous but still adorable.

Round Rock Color Run

Today I did that which I despise: I took photos of a color run. Ugh. I know. The event is ubiquitous. The photos equally so. There’s nothing in this blog post that hasn’t been done or seen a million times. For those of you who don’t know, the Color Run is a where people pay $45 […]

Choked

So. Sports. Haven’t done that in a while. I was a little rusty for the game but thankfully didn’t miss any big moments. Honestly the hardest part was sitting on the sideline while Wisconsin completely and utterly choked on a national stage (again). What made it worse was sitting there while LSU fans danced to their weird […]

Return to (distant) Homelands

A collection of some of the photos from my brief time in Germany and Norway before heading back to the US. I apologize for briefly turning into a nature photographer. Classes at UT start on Tuesday so look for new work from Austin!