My grandfather, Willis Sprattling, was featured in the May 1964 issue of Ebony. The article immediately following this one was about police violence during the Civil Rights protests.n seventh or eighth grade, I was given a writing assignment...
It's a dream writing machine, but a fast MacBook Air is still a slow computer.
I've been training my whole life for this without even knowing it. It sounds a little absurd, but my life has literally not changed in the wake of closed schools, shuttered businesses, and social distancing following the spread of the novel coronavirus. As a...
On the whole, last year didn't seem overly positive, but there were several very big spikes in the excitement graph, like my first time traveling out of the country in a decade and a couple cool press trips. Here are some of the numbers. 102-ish articles published...
Last year, I talked about all the words I wrote in 2016 for my year in review. I also mentioned wanting to finish my book. Well, for 2017 I have no idea how many words I wrote. It took too much extra time to keep track of them, so I stopped. As for writing the...
Some people will shoot directly through it, others will use it to refract colored light onto their subject, but however it’s used, it tends to result in an image that blurs the line between realism and fantasy
Nick's gonna give me shit for calling him the new face of craft cider but, hey, that's marketing. So everybody check out Xylem Ciderworks, coming soon to the Portland area! The impetus for this shoot was simple desperation. After spending a week or so on...
As a freelance photographer and writer, I spend a lot of time on the road (not really). People often (never) ask me, Daven, how do you manage your photography workflow while traveling? Ah, well ponder no longer, as I am here to bestow upon you the glorious...
The Pacific Northwest may be known for its rain, but the past couple weeks have seen temperatures breach 100 degrees. In this heat, going outside to shoot portraits isn't just unbearable, it's also simply not practical. Nobody who's sweating that much wants to have...