Photographer
David Enloe
I believe in the power of place.
I left a career in aviation because I wanted to stop moving. To pick a corner of the world and stay there long enough to know it. Our little dirt lane in West Marin has given me that.
Now I spend early mornings hiking through Roy’s Redwoods with my daughter, and late afternoons with garden soil under our fingernails.
She has learned the call of a Pacific Wren and to eat nasturtium flowers.
That’s what I’m trying to photograph. Not your family in front of a place — your family as part of one.
sound on
“Such an easygoing, funny, and likable dude.”
– Ben Frese, SF dad
“Such an easygoing, funny, and likable dude.”
– Ben Frese, SF dad
sound on
Growing up
islands & boats
My parents moved to the Virgin Islands before I was born. We sailed boats we didn’t really know how to sail. We rebuilt our house after hurricanes. We windsurfed on Sundays at Sapphire Beach if the winds were north, Bluebeard’s if it was south.
None of it felt remarkable at the time. It was just our life.
What I understand now is that I grew up inside a particular idea of family – that the best memories are made when you’re doing something together.
Not watching. Not posing. Doing, together.
time BETWEEN
planes & helicopters
For a lot of my twenties and thirties, I was a pilot. A lot of noise, a lot of movement, a lot of motel rooms in towns I can’t even remember.
The flying was beautiful. But I always wanted to be outside the little bubble I was stuck in.
You can chase adventure your whole life and never find meaning. I needed to stop moving to grow roots.
Landing here
a camera & a daughter
I’ve long had a camera around my neck. But I didn’t listen to that siren song until 2020, after we’d moved to San Francisco.
What started as a side hustle became a path forward.
My daughter arrived in 2023. Margaret Maggie Magpie. She has become my accomplice. The light in the morning. The sound of a stream. The things she sees and does when nobody is asking her to perform.
This is the work now. Pictures of people in places that matter.
Fair Warning
I always have three pairs of Rainbow sandals — work, everyday, and formalwear. Expect me to arrive in one of them.
Recent Press
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