The Annenberg Space for Photography – Iris Nights Lecture Series

If you are in the L.A. area and have an interest in the arts then I would definitely recommend attending the Iris Nights Lecture Series at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. They start on Thursday nights around 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free but you should reserve them as soon as they go [...]

2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

A bit of shameless self-promotion but this photo of Canada Place is currently on display at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. I think it is probably displayed at Canada Place since it is the main press center for the Olympic Games. Lindsey Vonn probably doesn’t have time to read photo blogs but it would also be [...]

Baby Photos: Mei-Yu

My cousin Jackie is in town visiting from Iowa along with her now 15 month old baby girl, Mei-Yu, so we took the opportunity to do a baby photo shoot during Christmas weekend. I have never done formal portraiture and since my style of photography is primarily photojournalism, this was a loose and fun photo [...]

Happy Holidays

This is my last blog post for the year. Though I didn’t shoot as much as I would have liked, it was still a fun year. Three especially memorable photo shoots were:
1. Butchart Gardens
2. The Wedge
3. Minter Gardens
Next year promises to be an exciting year as I have signed up for a grizzly bear photo [...]

How to Buy Christmas Gifts for Photographers

Unless you are a serious photographer yourself, it is difficult to know what to buy a photographer for a Christmas gift so that is why I’ll help you out with a list of general shopping ideas that are more likely than not going to make them smile. I’m not going to list anything super expensive [...]

Baby Calico Cat Kitty…

Will find a home. I don’t know what is wrong with some people but they just dump their cats off. For instance two years ago, one neighbor neglected a mommy cat and the two babies so then my other neighbor adopted them. So this new baby cat showed up in my backyard a week ago [...]

Philip Hyde Photography Exhibit

I went to check out the Philip Hyde photography exhibit at Santa Monica College the other day and highly recommend seeing it for yourself if you are in the L.A. area from now til December 11th. Philip Hyde was a pioneering environmental photographer who worked with the Sierra Club to create their influential large format [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Since this is Thanksgiving, and the 5th anniversary of my website is coming up in a few days, I wanted to thank you for having taken the time to visit my site at anytime during the past five years. I originally started this website to coincide with my first real image publication, Outdoor Photographer magazine, [...]

California State Parks Access Pass

The Director of Communications from the California State Parks Foundation asked me to help pass on this plan to help save our California State Parks from budget cuts. http://www.calparks.org/takeaction/
Here is some info from the California State Parks Foundation website:
“Today, CSPF took the first of a series of formal steps toward a long-term, sustainable funding mechanism [...]

Why PC’s Suck: Mac Switch – My New Digital Photography Darkroom

I recently purchased a Mac Pro Duo Quad Core computer. I normally wouldn’t write about technology on my photo blog because honestly I don’t pay attention to technology news. However, as a life-long PC-user (since the late 80’s), I felt compelled to offer my reasons for switching to Mac since the photographers who read this [...]

New Canada Photos Gallery

After two months worth of blog posts, I have finally finished processing my photos from Canada and added them to my website. Feel free to take a look at my Canada pictures gallery which includes sub-galleries for Vancouver and Victoria as well. I will also eventually be adding a few of my mom’s pictures when [...]

Pete McCloskey Movie: Leading from the Front

If you’re in the San Francisco area on Sunday July 5th at 6 p.m., then check out the hour-long documentary on KQED Channel 9, Pete McCloskey: Leading from the Front. Pete McCloskey, a former California Republican Congressman, is best known for co-authoring the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
The above image from the Eastern Sierras was [...]

Nature Photography Multimedia Video

Nature Photography Multimedia Video
Since giving the nature photography lecture at the Sierra Club in March, I had been looking for ways to get parts of my presentation online. It wasn’t until I picked up the Canon 5D Mark II recently that I was able to figure out how to put all of the pieces [...]

Recommended Photo Gear

If you frequent my blog you might have noticed the “Recommended Gear” link at the upper right corner. I’ve been working on updating this with equipment that I think aspiring professional photographers in the travel and landscape genres should own. At the minimum this gear should be enough to create images that are accepted at [...]

New Mexico Photo Gallery Update

I updated my website’s gallery of New Mexico pictures with photos from the recent trip. I’m kind of tapped out on travel photography so the next time I visit New Mexico I’d like to focus on landscapes and nature photography. Locations I’m considering are White Sands National Monument, Shiprock, and Bosque Del Apache National Monument. [...]

Canon 5D Mark II HD Video

Canon 5D Mark II HD Video
I took the camera out to a local park in the foothills for my first official test run. I clearly have a lot to learn about videography. (I’m not even in focus!)
Taking a break from New Mexico blog posts, tomorrow’s blog post will probably be of interest to [...]

Salton Sea Photos

Check out the new gallery of Salton Sea pictures on my website. The photos were made during two visits this winter in addition to my first visit in the winter of 2005. It is a creepy place for sure but a fascinating subject to photograph if you put some time into it.

Nature Photography Video

Nature Photography Video
I just uploaded a new version of my first video with several new images and a soundtrack, “Spring Snowstorm”, co-written by Brandon Hill and Joanna Perry. I am really liking how well this all fits together. Thanks Brandon and Joanna!

North Shore – Salton Sea

I met up with Brian Auer of Epic Edits for another day of photography around the Salton Sea. Brian had traveled from the San Diego area and around the western shore of the Salton Sea meanwhile I had spent the morning doing some scouting around the Palm Springs area only to realize I forgot to [...]

In the Field is Now a Wordpress Blog.

If you’ve noticed some changes on my blog you aren’t imagining it. After four+ years of blogging, I migrated my blog from the “Old Blogger” platform to a self-hosted Wordpress platform. Blogger really missed the boat on making their system search engine-friendly and also from a webmaster perspective. I did like how the blog’s template [...]

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