Yo Derek! I wanted to ask you a question on IG but figured I’d try here instead. How are you tiling your larger photos? Is it an app? It looks awesome and I’d love to know.

Hello! My IG is really odd with notification so my apologies if you asked on IG a while ago. I made the first few in photoshop but then found an app called “Instabanners” that made it far easier. I got it from the apple app store.

Favorite iOS camera or editing apps? I asked on your other site, but thought it would be more appropriate here. Feel free to ignore that last one.

Of all time Hipstamatic would be my favorite. There are so many amazing things about that App.

Currently Afterlight and VSCOCam.

I love Oggl a lot as well but I am currently on the iOS7 Beta and Oggl doesn’t work on the beta software.

So I just stumbled upon your work today, and I find it very unique and inspiring. I really like how open you are about your personal life and your artistic process. Something my portfolio is missing that I want to work on this summer is lifestyle/fashion style shots, do you have any hints on how to get the ball rolling with that? Sorry if you’ve gotten this before, and keep up the good work!

Thank you so much. Really there is not hint or trick. You just gotta find people that you are friendly with and start shooting them. If you can get a model to shoot all the better.

The only tip I have for doing more lifestyle stuff is to create a good environment. Have good people around with a good energy and create a fun environment that lends it self to fun moments to capture. Often times I feel like people take shoots too serious and then they become sterile.

I hope to one day work with you because you’re simply amazing and I would have a chance to perv and that beautiful juicy j booty

Hahaha. I hope so too! Perving on Julie booty is a requisite part of shooting with us.

I would to see more of you’re life style pictures :) and more Julie!!

It looks like thats definitely going to start happening more here. Stay tuned!

does your beard always smell like julie?

All day every day.

Question to the tumblr friends: would you guys like to see more of the iPhone/digital stuff I shoot on here?

Ive always thought to mainly keep this tumblr more pure “photography” but with various other places becoming more and more impossible to post the “life style” iPhone stuff I shoot in my every day Ive started to consider posting some more here.

are you going to ask julie to be your mrs.?

Ive been getting this question more and more so I figure Ill answer it this time.

I believe that life is about acting on a a feeling, or an instinct, when you feel it and finding how to fit that in to the image your life. In the image of my life I absolutely see Julie in my life the rest of my life. When that will happen is only for me to know.

I guess you’ll have to stay tuned!

Your photography is amazing, but I must ask why use film? I mean you’re fucking amazing behind any camera so why do it the analog way… I get the sproket rocket and the polaroid but the rest it seems you would get the same results using you 5D MkII?

Thats a great question. At the end of the day I like the magic that the chemistry of light and film makes. Certainly I could fake that magic with filters and PS, but really at the end of the day I dont get joy out of that. I get joy out of film, finding new ways to explore how it can play with light and how I can use that to shoot models. Digital, although I understand its place and do use it very sparingly, it doesn’t bring the same joy to my life. Its just taste for me.

I do often debate using digital more. You could argue that the freedom of digital could lead to capturing something film couldnt. Some day I may shoot both for a period to see if I get different things with digital, but for now I love the film and all its magic!

I like to hear from photographers that openly admit they have an obsession with multiple cameras/formats. Do you make sure to finish each roll, can it be frustrating to finish a shoot with half a roll left, and then waiting to develop?

Hola! I pretty much end my shoots when I run through all my film, so I dont usually have to worry about finishing each roll. If I dont finish them I enjoy the surprise of getting a surprise photos out of a roll.