One more from my Puerto Vallarta beach session. I was beginning to feel like I was shooting greeting cards — sunset over ocean surf, footprints in the sand, etc. — so I decided to play a little. Call it a game of “don’t drop your camera in the water”. As the waves would pull back [...]

I’ve intended to shoot the White Cloud Flea Market in the tiny riverside town of White Cloud, Kansas for decades but it’s held only two weekends a year and in seasons where I’m usually on the road. I finally made it this year and have to say that it’s an experience. Sort of a Woodstock [...]

Sorry for my recent absence… I’ve been in the penitentiary.
Don’t worry — just touring. After a few days in St. Louis last week, we stopped in Jefferson City, Missouri, to tour the recently decommissioned Missouri State Penitentiary with our guide Mark Schreiber (above). Mark was the Deputy Warden when the site closed and has [...]

I finished up the first week of shoots with JNA Advertising and Gizmo on Friday with Lori and Ryan in their wheat field in central Kansas. The next four days will bring ten more subjects in as many towns with lots of road hours in between. Everyone has been great to work with so far [...]

Another portrait from Egypt — this time a potter taking a break to have some tea. I had a print order to run last week and sent this and my Chinese kite flyer along for a couple of 11×14s. I don’t often get prints made for myself but these two look really nice.
As usually happens, [...]

Photographing people in Egypt is not always easy. Many want “baksheesh” — typically a dollar unless they see you have more (on a side note, on this recent trip I heard at least one person refer to American dollars as “Obamas”). I don’t have a problem with compensating someone for taking their photo but in [...]

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 ran across a link to the New York Times’ feature, Obama’s People on John Nack’s blog this morning. I really feel like these portraits show a government “of the people”. Check ‘em out and watch the “behind the scenes” as well. What a production it must have been to generate this seemingly simple series [...]

Three monks at the Buddhist temple in Zhenjiang, China. Great faces, great color. How can you go wrong?
The packages I mentioned in my last post have arrived. Unfortunately, I’ve had little time for anything other than unpacking them. First among the new arrivals is a shiny new Nikon D700. I’ve waited a long time for [...]

A few shots from Suzhou, China. Above is the Master-of-Nets garden and below are a couple of images from the Shan Tang Street area.