Over the years the gear inside my camera bag has changed tremendously from the early days of one SLR, one lens and rolls of film to a DSLR, a number of large lenses, a tripod, and a 17” MacBook Pro and now it has changed again. I was fortunate enough to travel around Europe for…
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Curves and Tattoos
Last year I had the opportunity to photograph my friend Kari and her collection of tattoos that included fairy wings that cover a large portion of her back. Shortly after that session she mentioned that she would soon be adding to her collection of body art. The piece is finally finished. It is large and…
Empty Places
Discovering new places and photographing them is one of the reasons I like to travel. On a recent trip to Kansas City I spent a couple of days exploring the West Bottoms blocks of old downtown Kansas City and the area out around Kaw Point Park. West Bottoms is an old industrial area down by the…
Motion In English Bay
I’ve been working on my backlog of images and I came across this photo from a recent trip to Vancouver, BC. When I’m traveling I like to explore the unfamiliar places early in the morning when the light is just perfect and before a place is teaming with people rushing to work or out sightseeing….
Inside an Abandoned Nuclear Reactor Chamber
There’s something unnerving about a dimly lit building so you would think that entering the Reactor Containment Building of a nuclear power plant would really raise the hairs on my neck but strangely enough all I felt was excitement. I wanted to get in there and I wanted to explore. Once inside the building it was…
Art Deco House In Ferrara, Italy
Have you ever walked passed a house or a building that just left you with a feeling that something amazing or horrifying must have happened there before? Like a crazy lady with only a glimpse of who she once was left in her eyes, she draws you in without saying a word and you can’t…
Stay On The Path
The thick fog added a mystery to the already beautiful but haunting forest ahead of me. It reminded me of the fairy tale Hansel & Gretel. Stay on the path, the further you walk in the more disoriented you become. Since I didn’t have a slice of bread with me to leave a trail I decided…
Battistero di San Giovanni
If you visit Siena you will likely want to stop by Siena Cathedral (Duomo di Siena). It is designed in black and white, the colors of Siena which symbolically link the Cathedral back to the black and white horses of the city’s founders, Senius and Aschius. And after touring the Cathedral it is an easy walk…
The Fuji X100S In The Studio
For this series of photos I wanted to play off of the vintage coat and glasses by having the images look more like film photos and not digital photos. Keeping with the “vintage” theme I decided to take the photos with my X100S by Fujifilm and not the Canon 5D MKII, which is what I normally shoot…
The Rolling Hills of Siena
I’m banished to the house this weekend with a nasty headache so I started going back thru all of the photos I took during our recent trip to Europe. This photo was taken on our way back from a day trip to Siena in Tuscany. We had a hard time leaving, but had to be…
Lost in Amsterdam
Today is our last day of travel in the great land of Europa. Looking back on our trip, we have met some amazing people and seen some amazing things and places. We only wish we could be lost in Amsterdam so we didn’t have to come home. Amsterdam is great city and is very well…
Bicycle Friendly
Amsterdam is known as one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. While cities like New York struggle to get people onto bikes, Amsterdam is trying to keep its hordes of bikes under control. In a city of ~800,000, there are ~ 1 million bicycles. In the past two decades, travel by bike has…
Amsterdam
Amsterdam really is a beautiful and interesting city. The architecture and the canals are so nice to walk and the cultural diversity, social tolerance and way of life here is really refreshing. There must me more bicycles here than on the entire west coast, maybe even all of the US. I could come back to…
Foam
We made it to Amsterdam yesterday and while on our flight discovered that Amsterdam has a photography museum called “foam“. So, today we walked ourselves to the museum to see photo exhibits from “Edward Steichen – In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923–1937”, “Stephen Gill – Best Before End” and “Bowie by Duffy –…
City of Light
Tonight is our last night in the amazing city of light. It seems only fitting to post another photo of the iconic Eiffel Tower. We have had an amazing time here, seen so many amazing places, and met so many great people that it’s very hard to leave. Paris actually has been very easy to…