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I suppose you could say that it's sort of a reverse rebellion. I am a straight laced Christian guy who is very happily married with two children. I don't have any piercings in unmentionable places, nor memorable hairstyles, nor do I protest every time someone does something I don't like. People with these views are becoming more of an oddity attacked by main stream society and considered a hateful group of bigots and nutcases. Ergo I have become a part of the rebellion without even trying. My rebellion is about being an artist with a purpose. Being an artist who has unpopular conviction and who will not give it up. That is the mantra of all artists.

The rebellion also stretches to what is expected of a photographer. When I was a kid I HATED going to a photographer because they were typically stuffy old boring people who wanted to twist me into a pretzel and make me look like everyone else who had come through that studio. When I opened my first studio my soul intent was to do work that hadn't been done with seniors, weddings and whatever else I could find to do. It didn't take long for me to become the most popular high school senior photographer in the area.

Film is a great, fantastic 100 year old technology that has not really improved a whole lot on since it was created. Since I was young I really tried to stray away from those things that were old. But, I was a die hard fan of film and was very hard to convert to digital. This confused most people because I've been an extreme computer nerd since I was 10 and was into every technology out there. I was convinced only by print quality and the end product after months of testing. Since then I've bought higher resolution cameras and have been really happy with the amazing final results. After that I put all of my old film cameras on Ebay.

Canon EOS 1-Ds, 1-D Mark II and a big pile of stuff that plugs into those bodies.

I like cake. And the brides are always something beautiful to take pictures of. I never know what to expect. I've been surprised by all kinds of emotional and physical outbursts at a wedding. I don't like to be bored, and I a never am.

Lots of shots. I find myself composing shots in my head even when I don't have a camera and am overjoyed when there is something in my hands that can preserve what I see.

We meet about a month in advance and talk about what's going to happen at the wedding: unexpected things that might happen, events or people to note and what formal photographs we shoot. I try to limit what is posed fairly dramatically. Time is important and I prefer not to spend hours shooting 200 variations of a photograph i.e. bride with mother, bride with father, bride with mother and father, bride with each sister, bride with the photographer, and on and on. There are important photojournalistic life-as-it-happens shots that will be missed while we are lining people up in an unnatural group and trying and coerce a smile out of them. What about a tear that is shed as a grandmother sees a bride for the first time? That's what's important.

At that meeting we establish a timeline and where those posed formals fit in.

After the ceremony I like to do what I call romantics. With these I try to grab that excitement of the bride and groom just participating in a life changing event. Typically people are pretty excited by this event and are somewhat wired. I capture that energy.

At the reception I become paparazzi and go right back to my newspaper photographer experience and shoot what's exciting. I don't tell you what to do or where to stand. You're a unique individual and the last thing I want is for pictures from your wedding looking like the last wedding I shot. Goodness NO!

I don't like coffee. But I really like meeting people at a coffee house because I've found most people DO like coffee. When you call, we'll set up a meeting at some trendy, fun, exciting place then I'll show you my work while you sip a latte. You'll like it! The photographs, that is.

I have a nice little contract with way too much writing on it which you sign and send back to me with a deposit of $450. You can obtain the contract by meeting with me at the aforementioned coffee house or emailing me.

Wherever I haven't shot before. I always am looking for something new to view through my camera.

Yes. I regularly travel for weddings.

Yep! These are some of my favorite things to shoot. Engagements are usually shot around downtown Austin, or wherever the heck I am. I love shooting in an old city, discovering a bunch of unique places with the couple.

With a bridal session, it's not so much about discovering locations as finding out what kind of limits the bride has. I'm trying to create something beautiful but compelling as well which may not always happen in a grassy field. I love to contrast the beauty of a bride with the ugliness of the world in a way that emotes something more.

Yep! I shoot high school seniors, musicians and occasionally editorial assignments.

I was assigned to photograph the President once. It was fun. I was stuck on a press stage about 100 feet away with all of the other media. I stood in the same spot for three hours.

In 2002 I won an Associated Press award for my photographs from the Biscuit Fire in Oregon while employed at a small paper there.

I teach workshops on occasion to professional photographers who are searching for the next great thing. I don't know what it is yet, but I'll find out before the next workshop. I want to help other photographers unleash what they really want to do in photography and enjoy teaching about technique, technology and how to create art despite those two.

Not really. People rattle off names to me all the time trying to sound smart and I typically have no idea who they are talking about. I don't read photography magazines. I do however like this new crop of Australian photographers who have a really unique view of everything. Yervant comes to mind as some one whose name I can remember.

"You're the Elvis of wedding photographers!" I don't know how drunk the guy who said that was but have always held that comment close to my heart. I'm not sure what it means.

My first choice is my amazingly talented wife whose artistic eye is fabulous! She typically accompanies me to all photo shoots and weddings and pays attention to details that I might not be able to catch or even notice.

My second Choice is my good photojournalist friend, Kevin Launius, whose journalistic approach to weddings brings pictures that blow me away. He's a full time photojournalist who has worked on both sides of the Rockies.

Somewhere new doing something crazy with my family just like I am right now. Life's an adventure and I am just along for the ride.

'Picture' was Travis' first word. At least that's what his mother claimed long before he ever began working in the photography world. His view is different and when people ask him, 'why?', he typically asks, 'why not?' Anything is possible in the world and anything can happen while being photographed. Weddings can turn wild, and the knot of a newly married couple gets even tighter as two become one. High school seniors find that the only person they need to be more than anyone else is themselves. This isn't your mother's photographer. This is your photographer: capturing now, how and who, working to create amazing beauty and remembering for you the events of a lifetime.

Travis doesn't want to fit in. He wants to be who he is and those who have a similar vision can embark on a fabulous journey of creating exquisite imagery. If he's the one, you'll know by his work.

Travis' wife Christina was always known as being too smart for her own good, she was told she'd be a computer nerd before she even owned a computer. That middle school principal was right. She graduated summa cum laude with a BS in CS and got right to work doing BS in CS.

Christina was just a little bit jealous when Travis got to to chase fires and shoot (with a camera!) politicians, so she decided to jump on his photography bandwagon so she could have some fun too. She has served as Travis' model, muse, assistant, financier, studio manager, web mistress, the Rebel's liaison to the world, and mother to their two little firecrackers. Since then she's picked up a camera and is hoping to shed the last vestiges of nerd-dom and be known as an "artist" instead. They get more respect, right?

Travis and Christina shoot anyone, anywhere. Travis's work has won him an AP award, as well as recognition amongst his peers as a pioneer of the newest, most unique and unusual of products and tools. Six years have passed since they started, and their zeal and excitement only grow with each new person they meet.

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