Two amazing memorials in DC
I got a chance to spend some time with some great friends doing some photography in the various memorials around DC this week. Although my time has been short in front of the computer this week with my conference and the hopping around town, I wanted to post a couple of images from two of my [...]
Fort Columbia Barracks
I was continuing to workon the images from the past weekends trip down to Ilwaco, Wa. Since we were looking for the high surf and wind on this trip, it was no surprise when the rain and hail showed up often and with vigor. So when the rain got a little heavy, we took the [...]
Cape Disappointment and big waves
my friend Mike and I, just got back from Ilwaco, Wa/Cape Disappointment State Park on a run and go trip. Run and go trips are trips that require you to just go because of time, condition or event that you have to react to rather than plan. In this case, the short notice was because [...]
The Country Tavern…3, 5, or 7
On a recent trip to Texas, I got the chance to revisit the Country Tavern. This might be my favorite place for ribs in the country. The menu is simple. They just need to know if you want 3, 5, or 7. You see the menu is basically ribs, and they just need the count. [...]
A visit to Pier 24 in San Francisco
Pier 24 is an amazing photography gallery down on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. You have to make a reservation to enter the gallery on their website and then you only get a 2 hour window for your visit. While I wasn’t sure about this policy when I missed out on my preferred day to [...]
San Francisco Street Art
I love the street art in this city. There is so much of it tucked away in between the buildings in addition to the art in the parks and street corners. This was a really quick snap shot, and I loved the juxtaposition of the lego people and the woman looking up at them. Great [...]
San Francisco Street Walk
Today I got into San Francisco. I am in town for a Schwab conference later in the week where I am speaking on building you business with social media (my day job is as a Marketing director for an investment advisory firm in Seattle). Since I didn’t get into town and checked into the hotel [...]
Nelson Nevada Rocks
I am in Las Vegas for my annual trek to Photoshop World. Although the conference starts on Tuesday with my photo shoot with Joe McNally and Moose Peterson, (along with 60 of my closest friends) this year I came down extra early to Vegas for a couple of reasons. The first is that I needed [...]
Starry Nights Experiment Part 2
Sometimes in life your best laid plans can go to waste, and so you have a choice of lemons or lemonade. Several years ago, I visited the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and fell in love with the place. It is a great location just west of the Columbia River off Interstate 90 [...]
Not all stories are done
My wife is from South Dakota and every time we go back to visit family, I am often times a little sad with some of the small towns the we visit and drive though on our way to a relatives house. A lot of her family were famers or are currently farmers and that lifestyle [...]
Starry Nights Experiment Part 1
Last night was my first attempts at any level of astrophotography. I have always been amazed by images from outer space. When I was a kid, my dad would get out a telescope and we would get to see rings of Saturn, craters on the Moon and the bands of clouds around Jupiter. And as [...]
Scouting the Palouse
After a few hours in the car, my friend Mike and I arrived in the town of Colfax, Wa in the heart of the Palouse. The drive in was amazing. The sun was out with just some big cumulous clouds off in the distance. As we cut down off of Interstate 90, I was reminded [...]
Heading back to the Palouse
This weekend I am heading back to one of my favorite places to photograph. The Palouse is a region in eastern Washington State. There you find some of the best people, rolling hills of wheat, barley and rye and if you are luck some amazing clouds and thunderstorms. The weather this weekend doesn’t look [...]
Olson House
I am in Maine this week for a workshop with John Paul Caponigro. On Sunday I took a few minutes on my drive around the area and visit the Olson house that was made famous by Andrew Wyeth. The house is in pretty amazing shape given how old the house is and the amount of [...]
Kauai Waterfalls
Hawaii has been an amazing place. We have had pretty steady winds and intermittent overcast skies, but that has made for some great waterfall shooting. These first shots are from Opaekaa Falls. This is a great little waterfall with dense forest and trees surrounding the actual falls. My first day to the falls I wasn’t [...]
Koloa Sugar Mill
The original Koloa Sugar Mill was originally opened in 1835 and all that remains of that building is the brick chimney in the center of the town of Koloa, but what is left of the main sugar mill is located just outside of town. Now closed and run down, the mill is a reminder of [...]
Riding the light
At the end of the day, portraits are as much about the light as anything else. The light helps craft the story. The folks from DLWS were kind enough to have one of their friends out to model for us and let us tell a classic Hawaiian surfer story. Pualani is a beautiful soul and person. She [...]
Dancing with Fire
Paul is an amazing person. He is humble, sincere and makes his living by dancing with fire and swords. For this shoot we got to have two shoots in one. Some natural light portraiture and of Paul fire dancing. One of our instructors, RC, worked on getting setup a variety of settings in a small [...]
Waimea Canyon
The Grand Canyon of the Pacific did not disappoint. This is an amazing landscape. It really does remind one of the Grand Canyon except for the lush plant life that seems to grow right on the sides of the canyon. There are dozens of hidden waterfalls and nooks in the landscape that really let you [...]
Hawaii Day 2
Well it has been warm for us today, or should I say warm for someone from Seattle. However, we have had lots of gray clouds hanging around for most of the day. It is nice when the sun breaks out from the clouds for a few minutes to give us some bright sunshine. We went [...]
First Day in Hawaii
Lori and I got to Kauai late last night and there wasn’t much to see after dark, but we managed to find our hotel just fine and got to drift off to sleep to the sound of the ocean. This is my first trip to Kauai, and so today was really about just a quick [...]
