Photography

365 Day Project

I’ve been a professional photographer for over 10 years, but most of that I only shared work that I created for clients.
Last year, I started a 365 day photo challenge on Instagram to share my personal photography work for the first time.
Follow me on Instagram to see each day’s photo.

View fullsize What a wonderful day at @stjoestoryco for my first public signing event! The owner Ashley has a dream of helping to revitalize downtown St. Joseph, MO, and she built a beautiful bookstore at the heart of it. Thanks to @thrivent, 100% of my proceed
View fullsize What would you say if you were radically honest out loud? Posting everyday for the past year has taught me is that I have been way too afraid of what people think about me. Most times, they’re not thinking about me at all, let alone thinking
View fullsize This is Dan Cumberland. He is one of my best friends … and I’ve never met him in real life. About 10 years ago, I started following Dan’s @themeaningmovement. He wrote about calling, purpose, and finding your path to doing wo
View fullsize May is Mental Health Awareness month. As The Caring House gains steam in the world, I’m so excited for some of the things we have going on this month, including: - Appearances on Selling the Couch and @drabhaydandekar’s Trust Me I Know
View fullsize I know it’s cliché. I also don’t care. When the sky is painted with pinks and purples and blues, there’s a human urge to capture it. Last week, the sky exploded with violence as tornadoes touched down on the outskirts o
View fullsize All of my meetings started today with a check-in. “Are you all good after the tornado?” Thankfully, we were about 10 miles east of the tornado’s path. What if we started every meeting like this forever? “You good?”
View fullsize This is the last week of my 365 day project. 200 of you have started following since I started. Thank you! I’m planning to continue posting regularly after the challenge is over, but maybe not daily. In the past few weeks, I’ve start
View fullsize Watch over us . . . When I was writing The Caring House, I would play one song on repeat until the words stop being words and just became a river of sound that flowed over the top of my head. One of those songs was “Watch Over Us” by
View fullsize Today was a scary day in the Midwest. The discordant tones of tornado sirens blared for hours. Projected paths became damage scars on the edges of our city. Friends saw funnels drop from the sky. Buildings at the airport took damage, but the
View fullsize It’s hard to imagine what being seventy must feel like. Seventy is the same distance from me in the future as age ten is in the past. No matter if I can comprehend it, my mom turned 70 today. She is the best salesperson for the book, bett
View fullsize About 80-90% of guys that I talk to say, “I don’t normally read fiction.” Then, if they’ve read The Caring House, they’ll say, “but I liked your book.” A lot of them read a lot of war books, biographies, an
View fullsize On my 40th birthday, I went to test drive an electric car. A midlife cliche? Maybe. But I didn’t buy it, so get off my back. I actually knew that I wasn’t going to buy it. I knew that, as @profgalloway’s Algebra of Happiness s
View fullsize I’ve hated the word “calling” for a while now. When I worked in churches, “calling” was often bandied about as a word to excuse any number of irrational behaviors. God MIGHT be calling you to leave your family, dress u
View fullsize It’s almost been a year. 351 days ago, I started the Photo a Day project. When the traditional publishing industry was frustrating me with their opaque standards and ancient practices, I felt creatively locked up. I couldn’t move fo
View fullsize Tonight was a throwback date. When we were dating, we used to see two or three movies per month. The movies didn’t have to be particularly good - not sure that Step Up 2: The Streets or Mamma Mia! caught the eye of the Academy. To end a h
View fullsize “Was writing a book always on your bucket list?” A friend asked me this the other day. It seemed like the obvious answer was “yes,” but I tried to track down the origin of that drive. As I reached back, I realized that it
View fullsize “I wish I was brave enough to write that book.” Last year, @dancumberland recommended a book to me, and that was my review. I wish I was brave enough to write it. Two things: 1. I’m proud of the work I’ve done to be honest
View fullsize Hope your day was better than my garbage cans’ was. Street trash. 346:365