Saturday, Day 01 of the World Without Orphans Cycling Team tour from the California coast to the Miami coast. These photographs are from today’s 72 mile ride with its grueling 4000’ climb from the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures soared into the nineties but fresh picked oranges and...
[May 3rd 2018] It was great to meet up with Gennadiy Mokhnenko today in my own country! Gennadiy and his World Without Orphans cycling team were fitted for bicycles today as they prepare to depart Saturday for their 2600 mile trek across the U.S....
Saturday, Day 15 of a 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure capturing grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain. Today we are in the city of Kramatorsk, a shell of what it once was before the war that started April 4th, 2014. Kramatorsk is...
Day 15 of a 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure. Capturing grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain. Today I am photographing in the war torn region of Donetsk, towns such as Swetrodarsk, Kramatorsk and Toretsk. I am learning stories through Olha Prytula, my...
August 14, 2017 – Day 14 of a 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure, Capturing Grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain. The impact of tragedy does not end with the event from which you were traumatized. Once your brain, heart and soul experience...
August 13, 2017 - Day 13 of a 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure, Capturing Grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain. Today we transition about 1 1 2/ hours from Kiev Ukraine to the smaller town of Zhytomyr, to photograph for Last Bell...
During our time with the World Without Orphans Biking Team, one of the cyclers that made a lasting impression was twelve year old Ruslan. Sitting her in my hotel room in Ukraine I am thinking about little Ruslan with his happy smile, endless energy and tremendous...
Andrei - Andrei is one of my many new friends from Ukraine! During the last eight days we have hung out of vans shooting photos together and he has saved me from some tight scrapes, holding on to me as I leaned out of a moving...
August 8th, 2017 - Day 8 of a 26 day, 11 flight and 4 country adventure, Capturing Grace in France, Ukraine, Russia and Spain. Mine and Carissa’s last day with the World Without Orphans Cycling team was epic as we reached the Atlantic ocean and the...
Albert - A chaplain and father of 12 adopted children, Albert did not start out working with youth. He used to be the manager for an adult rehab center. When he heard a sermon about adoption, he had the revelation that it is better to raise...
