I’m Rey and I began a lifelong love affair with photography when my brother gave me an ancient Petri rangefinder camera as a child.  From there, I purchased a Pentax K1000 SLR and learned how to manually focus and meter for high school and then college sports.  Taking a brief hiatus from photography to start a career and family, I rediscovered it in the form of a digital point and shoot when we loaded our kids into a Honda minivan and drove from the East Coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean and then back.  That trip changed my life.

I am a Catholic deacon, ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston back in 2004.

In my spare time, I am an avid traveler, hiker, wanderer and daydreamer.  I believe that planning a trip is 80 percent as much fun as being on a trip.  OK, maybe 60 percent.  In my non-spare time, I am a health care executive who frequently travels for work, speaking to business audiences on a variety of topics.  I am also a consultant and author and enjoy assisting mission driven, not-for-profit organizations succeed.  I have written a book on this topic entitled Saving Organizations That Matter.  More information here.

For me, this website will largely be an exploration of beauty, whether that can be found in the furthest reaches or in my hometown.  Additionally, this website will serve as a platform to store homilies and other related writings.

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Hello, my name is Joey. I am a photographer, criminal defense attorney, professor, and poet.

Cultivating present-moment awareness, confronting injustice, and exploring the endless expanses of love and beauty are my truest passions and pursuits.

I hope you enjoy viewing my images and reading my writings. My heroes, spiritual mentors, and role models include: Bryan Stevenson, Thick Nhat Hanh, William Albert Allard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Saul Leiter, Yung Pueblo, Paulo Coelho, and Fred Rogers. 

This blog seeks to spread hope and beauty; my father and I strive to generate positive and beautiful content, both with our photography and with our written words. If our images and thoughts can positively affect even just one person out there, we will be happy!

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Here’s a sampling of our photography…

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Check out more of Rey’s photography.

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And this is us just a few years back…