Featured documentary projects
01 · Chester Avenue · Bakersfield
Cruisin' Chester
Forty years along the strip
In the 1960s and ’70s, cruising Chester was Bakersfield’s Friday-night pulse — a rite of passage that helped inspire George Lucas’s American Graffiti. This isn’t a nostalgia piece or a staged revival. It’s a record of what forty years have done to the strip: the weathered signs, remodeled counters, and drive-in food joints that changed, hung on, or disappeared.
02 · Practice night · Kern County
Bull Riding Practice Night
Eight seconds in the arena dust
Amateur riders come out in the evening to work on a craft that gives nothing back for free. Under the floodlights it’s chute prep, a few violent seconds, and the walk back through the dirt — again and again, trying to get it right.
Disciplines
03 · BC Renegades & local sports
Action & Athletics
Grit, execution, and the four-year dream
Cross country and women’s volleyball at Bakersfield College — student athletes preparing, competing, and pushing for a shot at a four-year school — alongside youth and high school sports around town.
04 · Arena, ranch & campdraft
Working Horse & Horsemanship
Partnership in the dirt
Shaped by a lifetime around horses: horse events, arena rail work, cattle, and the quiet moments between horse and rider.
05 · Valley, foothills & canals
Kern County: Land & Wildlife
Light across the basin, life in the open
The open valley, the foothills, the canals — and the birds and animals that live in them. It opens with “Reflection on Lake Ming,” selected for the Monterey Museum of Art’s first Biennial in 2025.
06 · People & animals
Portraits
People and the animals in their lives
Natural, grounded portraits of people and animals.
07 · FAA Part 107 licensed
Aerial Perspectives
From above
Licensed aerial photography and video — city, rail, landmarks, and land you can only read from above.
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