I’m going to Haiti in four days. It’s a very last minute trip for a group called Physicians for Peace, where my wife recently started working. I’m scrambling to get my health papers and photo equipment in order and I feel a bit like the … Read More →
Category Archives: New Work
The Conan Blimp photo
If you are a big Conan fan, you’ve probably been wondering, “who shot that amazing photo of the blimp?” You can now rest your curious mind. It was me. On it’s way to Philly, the blimp made a pit stop in North Carolina to have … Read More →
Photo manipulation/tampering history
Mary found this site today featuring research on image manipulation and tampering. It has a nice, and occasionally funny time-line of examples. The research is done by Hany Farid and other professors at Dartmouth University who are “developing mathematical and computational algorithms to detect tampering … Read More →
New River Gorge West Virginia Holga
I sent this image to a few friends the old fashioned way (e-mail) with the subject line, “can your iphone do this?” Well, the answer is sort of. There are water proof cases for the iphone but would you really want to take it down … Read More →
End of summer cookout
The last two posts were landscapes, so I’m in the mood for a fun, happy moment from a recent stock shoot. A lot of stock is so straight forward, so on every shoot I try to mix up my compositions by having elements in the … Read More →
Campground near Fayetteville, West Virginia
I’m posting this photo because it follows the last one nicely in terms of color and angle of view. Both are taken with a 40mm lens from a distance that allowed me to capture the trees without having to tilt my lens upward. It’s an … Read More →
Funeral in Arlington Cemetery
This post is in sharp contrast to the last “happy” photo. This photo is from a family funeral about two weeks ago. It was for my wife’s grandparents. I questioned if this was too personal a photo to share, but I really like this photo. … Read More →
Surfer woman waiting for waves
This is from a recent shoot in Virginia Beach. We shot around sunset and got some beautiful light. Emory, pictured here was a great sport taking quite a beating in the waves. Each time a wave came in I had to hold the camera above … Read More →
Cox Communications advertising photos
So, I just got an e-mail from Cox Communications pitching their phone service. It was a fun surprise because I photographed everything on it except for the cutout of the guy with the mic. He was shot in a studio somewhere else. If you live … Read More →
Haiti: Home of Fine Italian Dining
Given the reports I read, I was expecting the apocalypse. But from a few thousand feet above the ground, Port-au-Prince looks a bit like the outskirts of Lima and others cities in the developing world. It’s greyish brown. The color of unfinished cinder blocks sprinkled … Read More →