Earth. Sky. The Moment Between.
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About Rob
Not a Straight Line to Here
I picked up my first camera in high school and never really put it down. After earning a Fine Arts degree in photography, life took me in a different direction. I spent more than 30 years building software companies, leading technology teams, and solving complex problems but photography was never far away.
In many ways, those two careers shaped each other. Photography taught me to slow down and pay attention to light, while engineering taught me patience, precision, and how to think through every detail. Today, those worlds come together every time I head into the field.
My goal isn't simply to document a plac. It's to capture what it felt like to stand there. I use carefully crafted single-location composites to create images that remain true to the scene while conveying the depth, scale, and emotion that a single exposure often can't.
I call Boulder, Colorado home, and many of my photographs begin in the Rocky Mountains, across the high plains, or beneath Colorado's dark night skies. But whether I'm chasing the Milky Way, photographing a total solar eclipse on the other side of the globe, or exploring the deserts of Jordan, the camera is always an excuse to discover another remarkable place.
Eclipse
Encounters
I shoot eclipses with multiple cameras simultaneously, planning each event for months in advance: position, timing, foreground, atmosphere. The goal isn't just to capture the eclipse. It's to show what it does to the world around it. That interplay between earth and cosmos is what I'm after.
The image behind these words was made at Rapa Nui, Easter Island, one of the most remote places on earth, and exactly the kind of foreground an eclipse deserves.
Solar eclipses. Lunar eclipses. Total, annular, partial. Every one a different problem to solve.