Monthly Archives: May 2011

It’s all about agitation and presentation…

Your host trying to remember stuff so I can write it down. Homage to Newt. Ray Newton, the best black-and-white printer with whom I had the pleasure to work, introduced this idea to me. Agitation and Presentation. That was just … Continue reading

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Of Nikons and Nixon…or a tale of two Richards

So, I had a request one day to tell how I got started as a photographer and how I got to do what I love. Consider this part one. It all started in John Marshall High School in Miss Beverly … Continue reading

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Placing pictures perfectly…possible panorama progress?

So you say I shouldn’t quit my day job to alliterate for a living. Okay. But I do some other stuff… Compositing pictures is one of the things that I frequently do, especially for background pictures used in translites. I … Continue reading

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Delicate roughness…

Jasmine flowers after rain showing delicate roughness. Seasons come and go, sometimes far too quickly for me. Our spring in Southern California is one of those. This year’s May showers seem just a little too special to ignore, however. Rumors … Continue reading

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A true Minnesota story…

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The Minnesota Twins and the Lund Boys (Guest essay from Steven Lund, honest!) Today May 17th the Associated Press reported: Harmon Killebrew, the affable, big-swinging Hall of Famer whose tape-measure home runs made him the cornerstone of the Minnesota Twins, … Continue reading

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Even little angels want good habits…

Sometimes I just have to play around to make ideas better. I often find that a good catch phrase or theme guides creativity. But sometimes creativity is driven by more than words – like music or images. Almost all sensory … Continue reading

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The lust of the eyes, or just gimme the cookie already…

Selling stuff requires desire, even if it is good for you. So my young friends at Good Habit took a chance and roped me into making you want some. To eat. Cookies. (And granola. More on that later.) They gave … Continue reading

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The maps, they are a changin’

Taking a break from my own pictures, I have a confession to make. I am a news junkie. I am not sure if there is a 12 step group for that, but I have a hard time staying away from … Continue reading

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Taking time to tell our story

Alan Au invited me to shoot backgrounds for a movie in March of 2002. It had been my first motion picture assignment in the city since the attack of the year before. I had been there for Paula Zahn’s set … Continue reading

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The day we all became Israelis…

In the hours and days following the attacks of September 11, 2001, I found myself numb with news. I needed to do something else. So I got to my computer and my files. While this picture is simple, it was … Continue reading

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