Where is my stuff
I am teaching a class on organizing (and finding) your digital assets at the Photographic Center Northwest on the weekend of March 2-3 from 12-4 each day. If you are looking to get a handle on your digital photographs I encourage you to sign up there are still a few seats available. We will be [...]
New work on display
I have some new work on display in a show at the Photographic Center Northwest this month. The opening is on January 10th and if you are around then or in Seattle this month stop by to see the show. Some absolutely amazing work by the other members of the program. On the opening at [...]
Know anyone famous
I got sent an email this am from a good friend of mine who wanted to know if I wanted to hang out with a celebrity. Turns out his son was cast in a commercial for Black Rapid this holiday season. You can catch it here as he catches Santa.
From the bookshelf part 2
Here is the next collection of 10 books from my bookshelf project that started last week. Each of these books are from my bookshelf in my office that I have found as an amazing source of inspiration support, or help over the years. While a lot of books I have purchased end up being one hit [...]
11 great photography books part 1
A mini projet developed as I am getting ready to paint my office and with the addition of new bookshelves in the house. As a result, I have had to move and organize the various photography books I have collected over the years. That got me thinking that I could share the ones that really [...]
Thinking about black and white images
I was looking back at some old images and came across this image of a orchid. I was just messing around with an orchid that was in the house, but as I got more and more into it. I started to think about how this image needed to be photographed in black and white. There [...]
Borrow Lenses rentals
I recently was in need of a lens for a trip and thought that I would give Borrow Lenses a try. I have spoken with them a few times at various conferences and found them to be very helpful and fun in person. So for this trip when I wanted to rent a Nikon 24mm [...]
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 [...]
Sticking with the Friendship Archway
I am continuing to work on my images from a recent trip to Washington D.C. One evening we headed down into Chinatown for some dinner and came to the intersection with the Friendship archway. According to the wonderful community over at wikipedia: “The colorful, US$1 million work of public art includes seven roofs up to 60 feet high, [...]
Lightroom Collections Workflow
Adobe Lightroom has a number of options for you to manage your workflow. One of the best ways is through the use of collections. I was a folder organizer for a number of years even with Lightroom on my machine, but once I understood the value of collections, collection sets and smart collections I never [...]
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 [...]
Returning to Black and White
This week I am teaching a quick overview of shooting in black and white to my intro to photography class. It has been some fun work getting the lecture ready for a little history of photograph, zone system and seeing in black and white. I wanted to show some examples in class of my own [...]
It’s all about the light and gesture
Today was the first day of the Photoshop World Conference. Well actually it was the pre-conference workshops, and I attended the Photo Safari that was put on by Moose Peterson and Joe McNally. This is my second time attending a photo safari with Moose and Joe and much like the prior time, this was a great [...]
Why I spent the day with Zack Arias
On Wednesday this week, I had the privilege to take part in Zack’s One Light Workshop in Seattle. This wasn’t my first time to get to meet and listen to Zack. I have seen him at Photoshop World, watched his course on Creative Live and I own a copy of his DVD. You could say [...]
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 [...]
Nature of Critique Part 1
I have been co-teaching a class with Jahnavi Barnes at the Photographic Center Northwest this Fall on the critiquing of work. It has been an amazing experience to get to work with a diversity of photographers at different places, wanting different outcomes and each having a very different shooting style and approach to working. The [...]
Gray days and winter storms
Today in Seattle, it is a vey gray day. Even at 10am the street lights are on in some neighborhoods, and my car automatically turned on the nighttime driving lights when I went out. The day is a reflection of my state of mind. No matter what I look at or think about with my [...]
10 things
A day shouldn’t go by where you do not take a photo The best photographs are images that surprise in imagination and inspire the next image. Photography what you love and love what you photograph. Even if no one else understands your relationship. I have 9 cameras and not once have they ever photographed anything [...]
