I love photographing weddings and working with couples and their families and friends. To keep the eye fresh, though, it’s good to travel around a bit. Here are some places where my cameras and I have traveled, near and far. This page is a work in progress and I have much to add, but I hope you’ll enjoy some stuff I’ve posted so far.
—cpb
France, April 2024

Mont St. Michel, Normandy

Rouen

La Siene

Louvre

Louvre et Tricoleur

La Tour Eiffel

La Tour Eiffel







France was gorgeous and the food was as advertised. And don’t believe the hype about the people. Even in Paris, they were great. Two years of (bad) college French was plenty, but to be honest, just about everyone speaks English, anyway. It’s like anywhere else: People are people, and when you’re nice, they’re happy to see you.
Total Solar Eclipse, April 2024












I traveled up to Northern New Hampshire for the total solar eclipse. As it was in 2017, the show was worth the colossal traffic jam at the end as 22,000 people tried to get home all at once.
Nantucket, December 2022

Beach grass and sky

Nantucket Harbor at night

Shuttered beach house in 'Sconset

Path to beach in 'Sconset

Couple and Sankaty Head Lighthouse

Nantucket Town, late afternoon

Private path

Nantucket Town at night, under constellations Canis Major (with bright star Sirius) and Orion (top center)

Store with "fancy groceries," 'Sconset

Blackbirds, Sanford Farm, Nantucket.

Farmhouse, Nantucket Island.











Photos of Nantucket on a trip over Christmas Break, 2022.
Pensacola Air Show, November 2022


Stunt plane doing loops

Stearman biplane trainers

Louisiana Air National Guard F-15 pilot making plans for after the show (I'm guessing)

A-10 Warthog attack jet

Blue Angels high speed pass

F-35 jet and transonic vapor arriving ...

... and departing

F-35 climbing at full afterburner

Crowds, civilian and military, getting ready for the Blue Angels main event

F/A-18 Super Hornet, with transonic vapor on wings

Four Blue Angels

Six Blue Angels













Photos from the Pensacola Air Show. Pensacola is home to Pensacola Naval Air Station and the Blue Angels flight demonstration team.
Manhattan

Midtown from Freedom Tower

9/11 Memorial

Cyclist at sunset, Midtown

Midtown from the Empire State Building

Flatiron Building from Empire State Building

Staten Island Ferry through tilt-shift lens from Freedom Tower

Midtown apartments

Uptown mural in the subway
Willamette Meteorite, stolen—err, brought ... to NYC from my home state of Oregon
Washington Square Arch

Geometry of the Brooklyn Bridge

Helicopters on the deck of the U.S.S Intrepid museum.


SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid museum.

U.S. Navy jet on deck of U.S.S. Intrepid museum.

East side of Manhattan from Brooklyn.

Flower, New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx.

Desert exhibit, New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx.
















Photos of New York City, many of which were taken from on high with a tilt-shift lens.
San Francisco Bay Area, December 2021

Golden Gate Bridge through tilt-shift lens

Rooftop party through tilt-shift lens, San Francisco

Surfers through tilt-shift lens, Santa Cruz

Twin Peaks neighborhood through tilt-shift lens, San Francisco

Rockridge BART train looking south from platform, Oakland

Saying yes to the dress in bridal shop, San Francisco

Twin Peaks neighborhood through tilt-shift lens, San Francisco
San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge from Oakland Hills.

Sister and father at sunset, Berkeley








Photos from San Francisco, Oakland, and other parts of the Bay Area, many of which were taken with a tilt-shift lens.
SW Utah and Arizona, August 2021

Road to Zion National Park, Southern Utah

Snow Canyon State Park, SW Utah

Snow Canyon State Park, SW Utah

Roadside trails, SW Utah

Pioneer Park and hikers, SW Utah

Pioneer Park and hikers, SW Utah

Zion National Park, Southern Utah

Joshua trees on the road back to Vegas

Grand Canyon from North Rim, Northern Arizona

Grand Canyon Lodge, North Rim

See, guys? Getting off the golf course is fun once in a while, right? ... Guys ...?

Summer storm, border of Utah and Arizona












My trip to Southern Utah to see my West Coast friends who were there on a golf trip. Alas, I don’t play golf, but that allowed plenty of time for photos.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, July 2018
El Arco

El Arco beach

El Arco beach

L.A. women on a girls' weekend

El Arco

Pelicans

Parasailers

Happy fisherman

Locals beach, Cabo San Lucas








Photos from Cabo San Lucas, which is in Mexico at the end of the Baja Peninsula.
New England, 2013-present day

Sailboat, Provincetown, Cape Cod

Fenway Park through tilt-shift lens from Prudential Building
Apple tree, Acton, Mass.

Boston and Charles River from Cambridge, Mass.
Beach walkers, Rockport, Mass.

Pleasure boat and humpback whale, Cape Cod Bay
Rowboat, Wolfeboro, N.H.
Brambles and beach cottage, Martha's Vineyard
Berlin, N.H.
Emery Island, Owls Head, Maine
Pulpit Falls, southwestern N.H.

Mansion on Cliff Walk, Newport, R.I.

Tunnel on Cliff Walk, Newport, R.I.
Startled birds, Stonington, Conn.
Girl on rocks, Orrs Island, Maine

Icy cemetery, Gilead, Maine
Beach grass, Martha's Vineyard
Ferry headed into storm, Martha's Vineyard
South Beach, Martha's Vineyard

Beach houses, Truro, Cape Cod
New London, Conn.

Woman in snowstorm, Malden, Mass.

Old North Bridge, Concord, Mass., through tilt-shift lens

Cape Elizabeth Light, Portland, Maine

Boston Custom House ceiling

Boys jumping off dock, Mattapoisett, Mass.

Old Guildhall Grist Mill, Guildhall, Vt.

Boston Harbor, outbound















I took up photography not long after moving to New England in 2014. Here are some of my favorite images from around my new home.
Sports, 2015-2022

Middle school catcher, Nashua, N.H., July 2018

High school swimmer, January 2023
High school catcher, May 2018.

High school football, tie game, Concord, N.H., October 2022

Game-winning catch, Concord, N.H., October 2022

Middle school pitcher, Nashua, N.H., July 2018.

High school baseball game, Windham, N.H., April 2022

Angels hitting/pitching dual threat Shohei Ohtani is tagged out in a rundown, Boston, May 2021.

High school baseball game, Windham, N.H., April 2022

Cross country, Hudson, N.H., 2018



Former Red Sox RF Mookie Betts starts a diving catch, Boston, August 2018.












Images of youth and pro sports taken in Southern N.H.
Oregon, 2011-2018

State Highway 226 and Ponderosa Pines, Sisters, Ore.

Jewish temple, Portland, Ore.

Smith Rock, Deschutes County, Ore.

Mt. Hood from Deschutes County, Ore.

Mt. Washington, Deschutes County, Ore.

Smith Rock, Deschutes County, Ore.
SW Portland Ore. from Portland Tram





