Vancouver Umbrellas
I am up in Vancouver, BC for a visit and workshop with David duChemin this weekend. I arrived in Vancouver a day early thinking I would take some time to photograph in and around the city. I opted to walk from the train station to my hotel to get a start on the photography [...]
Train Clouds
I was on the train from Seattle to Vancouver BC for the weekend. I was in the dinning car working on the computer when the train rounded a corner, and we could look back to the south. The clouds and sky colors were amazing. Reached over grabbed the camera off the seat next to me [...]
Dappled Light
Working on some images from a trip a few months ago to the Hoh rainforest over in the Olympic National Park. I spent a good chuck of my time in my film world in black and white and so I often times still come across scenes where I just know that I want to process [...]
PSW Photo Safari Redux
Well, I jumped at the chance to do the NAPP Photo Safari again with Moose Peterson and Joe McNally at Photoshop World. We had the privilege of getting to work with the fine people of the Bonnie Springs Ranch. They are such wonderful people to get to spend time with again. They are willing to [...]
Vegas Time lapse
I got checked in last night for Photoshop World 2012 (west coast edition), and my room this year at Mandalay Bay is on the 34th floor looking down the strip. So, I thought I would give a shot a making a little time lapse video from the hotel window last night. This video is over [...]
Ruby beach weather revisited…
I have been photographing Ruby Beach in the Olympic National park for a number of years. I first stopped at the beach on a drive down 101 after a visit to the Hoh Rainforest more than 10 years ago. It is well marked and a pretty easy hike. In fact, the walk to the beach [...]
Work Boots
On a recent trip to Weston Missouri, the family visited a local farm that we thought had a farmers market going on (it didn’t). Once we got up the driveway, we found a great barn with a little general store and an amazing reception hall attached to the back with what looked like the setup [...]
More night work from Wind Farm
Here is some additional work from my last trip to the wind farm. The primary purpose of this trip was to experiment with some night photography out on the farm for a project I have started. For me this type of night photography is interesting and presents its own unique set of challenges, many of [...]
More from the Wind Farm
I spent the past weekend out at Puget Sound Energy’s Wild Horse Wind Farm with my good friend Mike. We have been out to the wind farm a few times (here and here) on our way to and from the Palouse but this was the first time that we made a trip specially for photographing [...]
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 [...]
