I’m finally getting around to looking at all the photos I took during our brief visit to London last September. We had just a couple of nights before heading down to Southampton for a Baltic Cruise with my brother and his family. This time we chose to stay on the South Bank, near the London Eye, in a basic hotel located in the back side of the historic County Hall Building. It was a great choice because the pedestrian area […]
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Just two days after the Buttigieg Town Hall, on Sunday, February 16, I attended the Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren Town Hall in Reno, Nevada. It was held in the cafeteria at Reno High School, and it was a bit on the small side, with not great optics. I was there shooting as freelance for Shutterstock, using my usual Nikon D750s bodies with my Nikon Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 and Tamron 24-70 f/2.8. Compared to the other town hall, this one was […]
Friday, February 14 (yup, Valentine’s Day), I attended the Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Town Hall in downtown Sacramento. It was held at Cesar Chavez Park, right across from city hall, and it was a great venue. I was there shooting for Outword, and as usual will submit to Shutterstock as a freelancer, using my usual Nikon D750s bodies with my Nikon Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 and Tamron 24-70 f/2.8. I had not shot a political town hall, and it was […]
I am delighted to have two of my award-winning images included in upcoming Lottery for the Arts event. Blueline Arts holds the event every year, and I am proud to be a member of it. If you are not familiar with it, the March 19 Lottery for the Arts event in Roseville, California is a fundraising evening that raises money for art education by supporting a non-profit organization and its community of artists. “Checkmate in Sedona” was an image I […]
Last weekend, I was very excited to be at Photo LA and to have “Best Little Cowboy” chosen to be part of the Round Whole Square Peg exhibit. Thanks to curators Claudia Bartlett, Paul Bridgewater, Ruben Esparza, Bert Green and Phil Tarley, who included me. I really loved and was inspired by all the amazing photography at Barker Hangar. If you are not familiar with the event, it is the longest-running international photographic art exposition on the West Coast. Thousands […]
The Unexpected In May of 2019, De and I visited the Big Island, Hawaii. Neither of us had ever been. The “Big Island” has large amounts of lava, an active volcano and many fewer snorkeling and swimming beaches than the other islands. For that reason, it had been lower on our priority list for the islands. However, we found this island to be incredibly dramatic. Driving to Hilo from Kona on our first night, we encountered torrential rain and then […]
“De’s Room” is a created still life portrait of my wife in absentia. Her sacred sewing room includes her dress form and hat, which suggests her physical presence. Other artifacts represent and “reflect” three other generations, which says as much about De as her passion for color and textile. The image was created by taking multiple images in De’s room with different focus points. The original settings were ISO500, 32mm, f/8, and various shutter speeds. I then stacked the images […]
Celeb City! Last night, I was able to attend the red carpet part of the annual California Hall of Fame Inductees event at the California Museum. It was a little chaotic (especially with a bleeding finger and no bandaids or duct tape to be found), but lots of fun. I was very impressed by how the celebrities really took their time to interact with the crowd. Skateboard legend Tony Hawk signed skateboards and even did a little skateboarding on the […]
Growing up in Edmonton, Alberta, it’s not surprising that the summer camp I attended had a definite Western flavor to it. We rode horses, shot arrows, paddled canoes. I loved it, and wore my straw cowboy hat everywhere. With my short hair and athletic, flat-chested little body, I was often taken for a boy, and I never minded. After all, it seemed to me that boys had more fun! When the end of camp arrived one year, I was delighted […]