photo journal

Not My First Rodeo
Summer 2025 I had made my way through the rows of horse trailers for the third time and still wasn’t finding the photos. I was looking for cowboy culture (inasmuch as one might find it in New Jersey.) I had a vision in my head that included photos of saddles…

Why I sold my D500
March 2025 It was 17º outside on the morning that I bought my Nikon D500. I remember because I hiked a loop around Smithville Park that morning, bundled up in four layers. I wasn’t even planning to go to Allen’s Camera that day - but being in Easthampton I was…

NYC Character
November 2023 The early morning horizon was starting to blaze a deep red glow as I stepped onto the floating dock. This was my second light show this morning, having been treated to the lunar eclipse on my drive up to the Highlands. It was a crisp morning with winds…

Mercedez and Dymir
September is sunflower season! And as I shoot my way through the hot summer months, I start to look forward to cooler shooting days. When I first met up with Mercedez and Dymir to talk about their wedding day, Mercedez told me (and Dymir) that she had one non-budgeable request…

The Blueberry Capital of the World
June 2023 June is blueberry season in southern New Jersey! Southern New Jersey’s sandy soil is perfectly suited for blueberries. I’ll find both lowbush and highbush blueberry plants pretty much everywhere when I’m out hiking in the Pine Barrens. A couple of my hikes will actually pass right through old…

Fari and Jerrell
Fari contacted me all the way from Washington state about her and Jerrell’s wedding. They were planning a wonderfully intimate summer wedding at Blue Heron Pines golf club. The running joke we kept referred to how cold, blustery, sleety and miserable it was on the day we met in February…

Perfect Weather, Beautiful Light, Plenty of Film
March 2023 I took a train ride! I haven’t done that since pre-COVID. On the seat beside me was my Hasselblad 501cm, out on an adventure. Also along for the ride was my newly acquired 150mm lens and a few rolls of Kodak’s NEW Gold 200 120 film. This was…

Thank You KODAK!
March 2023 My photos were featured on the Kodak Professional website and social media sites again! Check out the individual photos further below… I use Kodak film exclusively. My refrigerator crisper drawer is full of Kodak film (yes, literally.) I was actually starting to plan out a few film photography…

Lauren and Steve
The Madison is like a second shooting home to me, so I was so happy when Lauren and Steve contacted me for their October wedding! Autumn days are the best for weddings, with cooler temps and crisp air. Lauren and Steve had a crystal clear, blue sky day to top…

Irem and Chris
When I first spoke with Irem and Chris, Irem mentioned to me that family photos were very important to her. As we moved further into our conversation, I also found out that getting a lot of family photos was a priority because her family was coming to the US from…

Propellers and Spaceships
April 2022 One of my favorite museums is the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum annex - the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. If you think the National Mall Air and Space Museum is impressive, then you’ve got to see the Chantilly, Virginia exhibit. I think it was way back in 2006…

Te’Anna’s Blazing Red Dress
When I received the call from Te’Anna’s mom last February, asking if I could photograph a Portrait Session for her birthday, I was thinking we’d wait until spring. Nope - she was ready to shoot! So, we planned for a day the very next week. Little did I know, we’d…

Kelsey and Mike
Bonnet Island Estate is a beautiful venue! I photographed one of the first events ever held here, and it hasn’t disappointed any time since. Needless to say, I was so happy when Kelsey and Mike contacted me to photograph their wedding day. Not only were they a great couple and…

Ariana and Ryan
We had an amazingly perfect August day for Ariana and Ryan’s wedding at the Carriage House in Galloway. Now, I always say that the Carriage House balcony is one of my favorite spots in all of South Jersey. And I always say that I could shoot up there all day…

Tribute in Light
September 11 2021 “I can’t believe it’s been twenty years,” I heard from so many of my friends. September 11, 2001 was that date in history where all of my generation will remember exactly where they were and exactly what they were doing when the planes flew into New York…

Shedding Tears
October 2020 I had friends from Arizona in town back in October, and they wanted to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. With limited attendance and timed admissions due to COVID19, we had bought our tickets well in advance. In other words, we couldn’t plan around…

Beth and Luke
Someone once compared their own industry to me as a pendulum. Trends and desires swing so far to the one side that the pendulum peaks and then begins to swing back to the other direction. I really love this analogy! Let’s imagine that to the far left is the super-traditional…

Summer Farmers Markets
Summer of 2020With my weekends free in the spring and summer of 2020, I stretched my photographic legs at Summer Farmers Markets. The colors and textures were the thoughts I initially had. Although I found plenty of both, I also found many friendly and talented faces. All photographs taken…

Kodak Professional Feature
October 2020 I was super excited and super proud late October, as a group of my film photos was featured on Kodak Professional Films social media pages! Kodak Professional Instagram - @kodakprofessional Check out the Kodak feeds and check out my little snippets right here. A full Journal Story is…

The Beach Umbrella
Back in July, I was in Cape May for a beach portrait session. Cape May is a bit of a drive, plus I have to figure summer shore traffic, so I left a little early. No problem, though - I’d get there with some time to look for some photos…

Welcome to a NJ Cranberry Bog
Autumn is just about here, and that means only one thing for me - Cranberry Harvest! I’m going to feature a cranberry photo of mine that has been making the rounds lately… Welcome to a New Jersey cranberry bog! New Jersey is the third largest producer of cranberries in the…

All the Way From London
July 2020 The last time I was with Patrice and Peter on this beach in Cape May was on their wedding day in 2014. What makes this occasion doubly special is not just that their little beach baby boy James has joined them, but that they came all the way…

Days Start Early on the Farm
July 2020 As a photographer I was tempted to pull a Jersey U-ey for about the fifth time this morning. The rising July sun was casting a warm misty glow across every humidity-laden farm field that I passed. But today’s photo shoot had my full attention. You see, I have…

Sarah and Justin
Sarah and Justin. I’ve been wanting to feature this wedding in the Photo Journal for a while. There is a brightness to this wedding - a bright day, bright settings, and both Sarah’s and Justin’s bright smiles when they are with each other! Even when the windy day chased us…

Christopher H Photo - FILM in the month of July
July 2020 It’s finally July!! It was way back in November when I was browsing through Instagram and I saw on the Kodak Professional page that they were taking tagged image submissions for a 2020 calendar featuring photos taken on Kodak film. I jumped right into my IG account and…

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