Early Wednesday morning I was on dog duty walking my 3 dogs around a local park. When I left the house the neighborhood was shrouded in thick fog. Realizing that there may be a photo opportunity with the fog rolling through the Monterey Pine trees in the park, I went back in the house to get my camera and tripod. Murphy’s Law would have it that as soon as I got to the park the fog started to lift, but just enou
Food for thought from Larry Lessig on how current laws are hampering creativity and new media technologies. Larry Lessig is a great speaker whom I’ve seen present in person and have great respect for. His points are spot on in my opinion, but I often find myself thinking about what he says at least twice, once as your average Internet user and once as a photographer. The propagation of photography online on som
One of the most attractive qualities of Yosemite is that it has so many beautiful facets that have inspired countless artists. If you look hard enough the valley reveals something new and amazing no matter what the season or weather. When photographing the park in the winter the snow often provides a great accent to a scene such as in my photo “Yosemite Valley Snow“. In other instances, like this one, the
Tonight I attended the Fake Steve Jobs interview put together by LinkedIn at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. I went out of my way to leave my camera behind so as to enjoy the evenings festivities. Even still I took a few photos with my iPhone. I’ve always been an Apple / Mac geek so meeting Guy Kawasaki, who interviewed Fake Steve Jobs (AKA Daniel Lyons) was a highlight. I was also luc
Lately I’ve been feeling that I’m not as efficient as I could be in my Photoshop post-processing efforts. As always I’m looking to increase my productivity. I’m curious what techniques you use, big or small, to save time on your post-processing efforts? Below is one thing I do in an effort to speed things up. I picked this tip up from Paul Caponigro… I created an action that I can quickl
I couldn’t help, but post these to photos from this past weekends Icer Air event. I thought these two photos were particularly cool. (I’ll forever resist using the term “sick”). Koji Kraft was really ripping it up on the vert ramp and at the end of Neil Hendrix’s run he flashed a great face. More at my Icer Air 2007 Photo Archive Koji Kraft getting big air on the vert ramp at Icer Air Ne
Todays article is a guest post by friend and fellow landscape photographer Martin Gommel. Last week Martin hosted my guest blog entry “Inspired Photography” and has reciprocated with his own take on photographic inspiration. If you’re unfamiliar with Martin’s work I highly recommend checking out his blog Kwerfeldein and his Flickr photostream. Enjoy! Source Of Inspiration: Gratitude Being frus
Yesterday was a great day at Icer Air 2007. The ski and snowboard big-air competition was incredibly fun to watch and photograph. I spent my time getting photos of the ski and snowboard big-air competition as well as shooting the activities on the vert ramp. Below are a few samples of photos from Icer Air 2007 and another 64 photos are initially only available at my photo archive. Icer Air 2007 Photo Archive Jumping