I have a few friends who are older than me who still ride skateboards … I’m pretty confident in saying that neither look at this blog, so I feel like I should mention them … Hell, I’m sure they wouldn’t care if I did mention their names … If I still skateboarded and was mentioned…
Continue Reading →Every year, usually in August, we head north to Spokane, WA. My wife’s family grew up in Spokane on the family farm. It’s a beautiful property, clear skies, giant trees and the Little Spokane River running right through it. I’ve been told that “the farm” used to actually be a working farm … complete with…
Continue Reading →The LA TIMES website has a section called L. A. Now. In a section of LA Now called Southern California Moments, they post a picture each day. The pictures are submitted by the readers with the guide lines of the image having been shot in Southern California. The pictures range from snap shots to photographs,…
Continue Reading →we do an annual camping / river float trip every year with about one hundred of our closest friends. we all converge on brownstown in bishop, ca on 4th of july weekend. after the fact, i always wish that i had taken more pictures, not that everything needs to be documented, quite the opposite, but…
Continue Reading →seriously, i forgot to pay my mortgage. i’ve been so excited and distracted about being included in the hatakeyama gallery show for la artwalk last week, that everything else was secondary. i’m struggling for the right word here, but i was seriously honored, stoked, flattered, excited, humbled to see my friends and family there supporting…
Continue Reading →i was asked to be in a street photography show at the Hatakeyama Gallery. i’m super stoked to be asked. its a street photography show with a theme … CARS. most of you know that this means: a candid image of a stranger that includes a car or cars. i am really happy with my…
Continue Reading →I’ve been shooting a lot lately. More than ever before. June 10 – I met some of the LA Streettogs at Hatakeyama Gallery for some shooting in DTLA. I had a great time, I was happy to meet some of the streettogs that I hadn’t yet met. I always have fun shooting in a group,…
Continue Reading →the other day i walked otis through a stretch of 1st street in santa ana that is a little rough around the edges. we were walking at about 4:00 in the afternoon, less than a mile from my office. i have to admit, i was a little uncomfortable. there were junkies, hookers, thugs … i’m…
Continue Reading →we just got back from a super fun trip to new orleans, la (NOLA). i’d been there 3 times prior and knew what to expect with bourbon street (for those who have not been to NOLA but have been to Tijuana – picture a cross between Revolucion in Tijuana with down town Las Vegas –…
Continue Reading →saturday, may 19 was a pretty fun day. my friend had been tasked with providing a handful of scooterists for a photo shoot with a fiat 500 car. the gathering of the scooterists was easy for him as he’s the local scooter mechanic … i was told about this shoot on friday night and was…
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