I’m working on a project with JNA Advertising and the great guys over at Gizmo for the next couple of weeks that involves a bunch of quick-turn environmental portraits. Last night Tavio and his biking buddies made great subjects and I decided to try the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye with a little off-camera flash. I used [...]

I thought I’d try something a little different tonight and revisit an old file — one that I didn’t really consider a keeper before — and see what I could do with it. I went back to the first international trip I made after switching to digital. It was a trip to Greece in 2003.
It’s [...]

This could be a long one but I’ll do my best to be brief.
My wife has an incredible collection of family furniture. Originally Scottish, some of the family wound up in Montreal where they were prominent engineers involved in, among other things, the building of the earliest canals along the St. Lawrence. Wealth followed and [...]

A press trip can be a whirlwind. On my recent trip to China my host describe it as “admiring the blossom from a galloping horse”. No truer words have been spoken. Yesterday I was on a bus with several other photographers and riders for over seven hours. Sometime in the mid-morning, a friendly competition began [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that my main goal on this trip to the Shanghai region of China was to get a good, iconic skyline shot of the Oriental Pearl Tower and the recently developed Pudong area. I showed a photo of two nearby skyscrapers — currently the tallest in China — with a [...]

I’ll admit it. I shot this out of a moving car window. Sometimes you do what you gotta do.
High, high winds — supposedly a system pushed inland by hurricane Norbert — were blowing in the Four Corners area when my group of journalists were taken to Shiprock for a picnic lunch. Along the way, Shiprock [...]

Stremel (streh’ mull) – To “Stremel”, it’s been “Stremelled”, I’ve been “Stremelling”.
Definition – the act of making an image largely through the use of luck. Term coined in reference to one Doug Stremel – the luckiest shooter on earth (although one Bruce Snell has also been instrumental in the development of the technique).
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These blown-glass [...]

I’m often on a tight schedule when shooting and that’s not always a good thing. Yesterday, I had the luxury of getting into Little Rock fairly early so that I cold scout some things that I would be shooting during my stay here. Foremost among those was the Clinton Presidential Library. My scouting shot is [...]

Here’s one more from the shoot with Kristen last weekend. This one is obviously a little more “processed”. I added the vignette and the blur in Photoshop and also overlaid a shot I had in my files of an old Korean manuscript. The background just felt like it needed a little texture.

I returned from Canada late Saturday night and jumped right back into work on Sunday. Today I finally had enough of a breather to start the post-processing from this trip. The shot above is a pano created with the Photo Merge command in Photoshop from eight separate shots I took at Peyto Lake. I shot [...]