Pretty Random: Mission Beach + La Jolla: A Serendipitous Visual Journal of Moments In Between Hardcover – July 11, 2025

This book is part of an ongoing series I’ve come to call Pretty Random—a personal return to the joy of photography without the pressure of perfection. It’s about letting go of technical precision in favor of simply paying attention. About walking, noticing, and shooting whatever draws the eye.Pretty Random: Mission Beach & La Jolla began as a quiet side project—just me, my iPhone, my dog Bodie, and often a coffee in hand. These photos were never meant to be anything more than casual snapshots, stored deep in my camera roll. But slowly, I realized there was something here: a kind of rhythm, a visual journal, a collection of unexpected little treasures hiding in plain sight.I started pulling them out, curating them—not by theme or technique, but by feel. This isn’t about the right lens or golden hour lighting or getting the shot "just right." It’s about capturing the texture, light, instinct of streetlights, headlights, moonlight, porch lights, cracked pavement, crooked signage, sea haze, and stucco shadows. The strange beauty of these two neighborhoods—Mission Beach and La Jolla—emerges not in the obvious postcard images, but in the in-between moments you only see when you’re not trying too hard.iPhone photography gave me back the freedom to shoot with no friction. With no gear to lug, no settings to second-guess—it's a tool to respond in the moment, wherever I happened to be. Walking the same blocks again and again, watching the light change, I found the images becoming more about feeling than form.This book is the result of that slow accumulation. A stream-of-consciousness visual walk through two corners of San Diego that I love, shared with no rules and no expectations. Just moments worth noticing. Read more