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—Every Chance I Get
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