Insights & Stories
Thoughts, insights, and stories on real estate, design, and the places that inspire them.
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Pelourinho Salvador Brazil at Sunrise: Photographing the Historic Heart of Bahia
Read more: Pelourinho Salvador Brazil at Sunrise: Photographing the Historic Heart of BahiaPelourinho Salvador Brazil is one of the most fascinating historic districts I have ever visited. During a trip to Bahia in 2025, I found myself wandering its cobblestone streets before sunrise, camera in hand, exploring the birthplace of…
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Sunset Over Nazaré Portugal | Drone Photography Above the Atlantic Coast
Read more: Sunset Over Nazaré Portugal | Drone Photography Above the Atlantic CoastThere is something magical about the coastline of Nazaré, Portugal at sunset. The Atlantic Ocean stretches endlessly into the horizon, the cliffs glow with warm evening light, and the sound of crashing waves echoes below the old lighthouse…
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An Evening Walk Through Downtown St. Petersburg: Photography, History, Architecture, and Quiet Reflection
Read more: An Evening Walk Through Downtown St. Petersburg: Photography, History, Architecture, and Quiet ReflectionOne of the things I love most about photography is that it slows you down. Not artificially. Not in a forced or curated way. It simply changes the way you move through the world. You stop rushing. You…
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Fear, Beauty, History, and the Soul of a City
Read more: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Fear, Beauty, History, and the Soul of a CityFor years, I avoided Brazil. Not because I didn’t want to go. Quite the opposite. Brazil fascinated me. The music, the coastline, the history, the architecture, the photography opportunities, the energy of Rio de Janeiro itself. It all…
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Cape Cod Photography: What Keeps Pulling Me Back to the Outer Cape
Read more: Cape Cod Photography: What Keeps Pulling Me Back to the Outer CapeThere are places I visit and places I return to. Cape Cod falls firmly in the second category…and has for most of my adult life. I’ve camped there in August heat and in the dead of winter, stayed…
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Hawaii Through My Lens: Fourteen Years of Returning to What Feels Like Home
Read more: Hawaii Through My Lens: Fourteen Years of Returning to What Feels Like HomeFor the past fourteen years, Hawaii has been more than a destination for me—it has become a place of rhythm, reflection, and creative energy. It’s where I go to reset, to explore, and to capture moments that feel…
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Clean Me Up — A Winter Moment in Edinburgh
Read more: Clean Me Up — A Winter Moment in EdinburghThere are photographs you plan… and then there are photographs that find you. This was one of those. I had just left the World Scotch Tasting Experience in Edinburgh—warm, relaxed, and probably walking just a little slower than…
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Havana Malecón Sunset Photography: Seven Fishermen and the Light That Stopped Me Cold
Read more: Havana Malecón Sunset Photography: Seven Fishermen and the Light That Stopped Me ColdThere are photographs you spend months planning — the location scouted, the light calculated, the composition rehearsed. And then there are the ones that simply happen, if you’re paying attention. This image, made along the Malecón in Havana…
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Photographing Dunedin: A Decade of shooting the Same Town
Read more: Photographing Dunedin: A Decade of shooting the Same TownThere is a kind of photography that travel writers and Instagram briefly describe as “discovering” a place. You arrive somewhere new, you photograph it intensely for a few days, and you leave with a portfolio of images that…
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Gates of the Valley
Read more: Gates of the ValleyI’ve shared this same composition in summer before, but with winter upon us I wanted to offer a glimpse of what Yosemite National Park and the Gates of the Valley likely look like this morning. Returning to the…
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Street Photography in Cairo, Egypt — A Moment That Changed My Perspective
Read more: Street Photography in Cairo, Egypt — A Moment That Changed My PerspectiveBy the time I arrived in Cairo, Egypt in late 2014, I had already been traveling for months—moving across countries and cultures with little more than a camera and a curious heart. But Egypt felt different from anywhere…
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Ahhhh, Time to Relax
Read more: Ahhhh, Time to RelaxThe Hammock, Cozumel I made this photograph in late 2012, on a cruise with a group of friends. One of our stops was Cozumel — an island known for its turquoise water, coral reefs, and the particular kind…
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