Finding beauty in the ordinary.

I'm a photographer, writer, and storyteller splitting life between Daly City, California and Guam, with deep roots in the Philippines. I've been behind a camera for nearly fifty years — since my dad handed me a Canon FTB in the late 1970s. He passed away recently, and that origin story means more to me now than it ever has.

I created The Traveling Photog to document what I see and what I feel. Through black and white photography, personal essays, and video work, I share the quiet moments — the light through office blinds, a conversation on a drive, the weight of a family bakery inherited across generations. Sometimes it's a portrait session. Sometimes it's grief. Sometimes it's just sitting in golden light and not picking up the camera.

My life has been an amalgamation — Marine veteran, church musician, baker, father, husband, photographer. I used to think that was scattered. Now I know I was gathering stories.

I shoot with a Nikon ZR & Zf, Leica Q2 Monochrom, and Leica M 240. The blog is my creative journal. The YouTube channel is where the process lives. And all of it — the photos, the essays, the videos — is me trying to make something real enough that you can see it the way I see it in my mind's eye.

New posts most Mondays. New videos most Fridays.