About Black Hat Photography

Over ten years ago, I picked up a camera and started photographing cars — the curves, the details, the way light catches metal at the right angle. I had no idea it would turn into what it's become.

Since then, photography has taken me everywhere: coastlines at midnight, mountain summits before dawn, fog-draped bridges and star-filled skies far from city lights. Landscape and night photography have become my deepest passions — there's something about being out in the dark, waiting for the Milky Way to clear the horizon or the lighthouse beam to sweep across the water, that never gets old.

My approach is simple: I show you what was actually there. I don't composite elements from other photos, I don't add skies that weren't there, and I try not to over-process what the camera captured. With the exception of standard techniques like exposure blending — combining multiple shots of the same scene to capture what the human eye sees but a single exposure can't — almost nothing in my photos is manipulated. No elements from other scenes, no stock skies, no fabrication. What you're looking at is what was there.

Every canvas print in this store is a moment I was present for — a drive out to the coast at 11pm, a hike in the dark to catch the light, a long wait for the sky to do something extraordinary. I hope that when you hang one of these prints on your wall, you feel a little of what I felt when I took it.

The store is growing, and more work is on the way. If you don't see what you're looking for today, check back — there's always another shoot in the making.

— Black Hat Photography | San Francisco Bay Area