Each year, I try to publish some of my favorite photos of the year. This year, as I went through my files for the various things I took pictures of this year, it became apparent to my the vast diversity of things I shot this year. Up until this point, I hadn’t realized this year was different from any other. Sure, I take pictures in Africa every year, but this year there was so much more than that. From Eastern Ethiopia to shooting a wedding in the Bahamas to documenting life on a fishing boat, I truly have a lot that I’m happy to have captured this year. I’m posting quite a few photos in this blog, and there are many more I could have posted. Some made it in for the technical quality of the photo, some for the backstory or the story the picture tells. Hopefully the latter two will represent well. Please enjoy. I look forward to the adventures that 2016 brings. All photos can be clicked on for a larger view.
Men working on a shrimping boat off the coast of South Carolina.
wide panorama of the Kibera slum, largest urban slum in Africa
A patchwork of farms surround a small village in Ethiopia.
Time goes by around a bride and groom in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
Environmental portrait of Sarah Sanford-Rausch.
People watch as a whale shark and manta ray swim past at the Georgia Aquarium.
One of my favorite wedding shots of the year.
How can you not love this elderly man from Ethiopia?
The gratitude of a woman saved from starvation.
A portrait I did this fall on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.
This picture for me sums up what Harar, Ethiopia looks and feels like.
A shot at sunset as the storm rolled in near my home.
My favorite of the wedding I shot in Hopetown, The Bahamas this year.
The captain of the fishing vessel I was shooting on this fall.
Time lapse of the waves rolling in past the bride and groom.
Candid portrait of a girl in Kibera, Kenya.
Action portrait of dancers for a Beaufort Lifestyles Magazine.
time exposure of young man standing in flowing water looking at dead flooded trees.
Woman walking with a donkey in the highlands of Ethiopia.
Author Pat Conroy in this environmental portrait in his home.
One of my favorite Ethiopia shots ever, taken in Dire Dawa.
Portrait taken for Beaufort Lifestyles Magazine.
Pastors totally lost in prayer in Ethiopia.
Time exposure of waves and driftwood in the ocean at sunset
A wedding portrait I shot on Fripp Island.
Ethiopian athletes playing football (soccer) at dawn.
Short time exposure of traffic in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.
I photo I did for a couple’s engagement this fall.
Kids hamming it up for the camera in Kibera, Kenya.
Enjoying a “Stoney” with my wife in Kibera.
One of my couples in an avenue of oaks.
Athletes receiving new shoes donated from Nike in Ethiopia.
A couple watching the storm roll past just after their wedding.
South Sudan Traveler 