Time flies. Live every day like it's your birthday. Let me take care of the rest.

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Hi I’m Alvin, husband, father, biker, creative & business consultant, lover of cheeseburgers, coffee & Leica cameras

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‘Your work inspires me and reminds me to not take what I am passionate about for granted.’

- Former work colleague who thought I was crazy when I bought my first Leica; now one of my biggest fans


Hi I’m Alvin, husband, father, biker, creative & business consultant, lover of cheeseburgers, coffee & Leica cameras

After spending 20+ years in advertising as an account, strategic & business leader, I now find myself scratching that photographic itch in a way I had never anticipated. I had not planned to become a photographer, but we only get one life and it just feels right, to be giving this my all. I find myself in the unique position having led businesses, creative strategies, client relationships, agency teams, production & execution of multi-million dollar campaigns as the “business guy,” while now becoming the “creative guy.” A bridge between the family photographer aimed at capturing real, genuine, beautiful moments, a portrait photographer capturing the true essence behind a gaze, and that commercial photographer executing against a hope and vision as personal to a client as his own family & children.

Overall, my intent is to work with passionate, real people who value all that we are fortunate to have. Because we’re in this together.


Jen & I photographed by my good friend and fellow photographer, Micah Baird, a few days before our wedding day in 2010. Our theme was “Hiker Marries Biker,” essentially summer camp with 100 of our closest family & friends. Guess who’s the hi…

Jen & I photographed by my good friend and fellow photographer, Micah Baird, a few days before our wedding day in 2010. Our theme was “Hiker Marries Biker,” essentially summer camp with 100 of our closest family & friends. Guess who’s the hiker and who’s the biker.

The intrepid hiker in the mountains of Taiwan

The intrepid hiker in the mountains of Taiwan

Northern CA November beach day

Horsing around

Horsing around

Jen exploring the urban jungle that is Midtown Manhattan

My little photographer in training (when not raiding the hotel lobby candy dish)

Strawberry picking on the CA Coast, I am very grateful for these two

First day of 2020, photographed on the very playground where I grew up

June 2020


Just for fun

Tidepooling


Adventure

serenity

surroundings

Made in taiwaN


(A Preview)


These are the days


Be safe. Be kind. Be well.

Time flies. Live every day like it’s your birthday.

Let me take care of the rest.