A one-person studio for organizations that take their work seriously.

I came to this work through a camera. For years I photographed portraits, families, weddings, the events people most want to remember, and the part I loved was helping someone show up at their best. When the shoots dried up in 2020, I started building websites for a few of those same clients, and it turned out to be the same job in a new medium: work out what someone is really trying to say, then make it clear. Web design is the studio's main work now, but the photographer's eye stayed, and most projects still end up with real photography in them.

Before any of that I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Edinburgh, back home in Scotland. The degree did not make me a designer, but it taught me to take a thing apart, understand why each piece is there, and put it back together so it holds. That is how I approach a website too: structure first, surface second, and built so the person who inherits it can actually keep it running.

I also do plenty of this work as a volunteer. I'm on the media team at Crestview Presbyterian Church, where I run the weekly livestream, plan and buy the equipment upgrades, and shoot the photo and video the church uses for its website and its socials.

Personally, I moved from Scotland to Cincinnati in 2017 to be with my wife, became a US citizen in 2022, and these days we're raising two kids and buying our first house here. When I'm away from a screen I'm usually out on a long run, chasing landscapes with a camera, deep in an ambitious Lego build with the kids, or a few episodes into a history drama.