What Happens to My Photos When They are Stolen
I figured with all my photos posted across the internet on various newspaper websites and my personal blog, some images are going to be stolen every now and then. It is almost a given. Today, a friend posted on Facebook a link to a little program called “Src Img”. It is a search program that [...]
Exploring the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Owned by the City of Los Angeles, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is a nice (and cheap) alternative to the more expensive Long Beach Aquarium across the harbor. I didn’t even know it existed until this weekend and had some fun exploring it. Photographers love aquariums… lots of color and lots of fun ways to photograph. [...]
Catalina Island’s Interior
A few shots from a ride through Catalina Island’s interior with the Catalina Conservancy. While the town of Avalon on Catalina is well visited, the island’s interior is much less accessible. Either you have to hike through fairly rugged terrain, pay a nice little sum for a tour, or you have to know somebody that [...]
Scenes From Death Valley
Chelsea and I spent our New Years Eve camping in Death Valley National Park. For a place that is known for its extreme heat, we experienced the opposite — extreme cold. I was planning for temps in the 30′s, but it ended up dropping down to 14 degrees where we were camping. Much too cold [...]
Big Sur
A couple of photos I have been meaning to post from our trip up to Big Sur at the end of October… Oh, did I mention I got engaged to Chelsea that weekend? Yeah, it was a pretty good weekend…
Snow in Los Angeles?!?
Nah… just a very cool snow machine that was set up during a holiday event in Redondo Beach. The kids didn’t seem to mind the fake snow though:
Sailing on the Lady Washington
I had a cool assignment to photograph the historic Lady Washington tall ship last week as she transited from Redondo Beach down to Long Beach. Standing at 67 feet long, the wooden vessel is a replica of the original Lady Washington, which was built as a merchant ship in the late 1700′s and was the [...]
Halloween on a Whole New Level
I wasn’t too excited to shoot trick-or-treating last Monday night, but when I got to the street I was assigned to, I was blown away. I have never seen a street go so crazy for Halloween. As one homeowner said, “We don’t decorate for Christmas, so we put all of our efforts into Halloween.” People [...]
2011 Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race
I spent last weekend on Catalina Island photographing the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race. The 32-mile, open ocean race goes from Isthmus Harbor on Catalina Island to the Manhattan Beach Pier on the mainland. It is one of longest, and definitely one of the most challenging paddleboard races in the country (if not the world). It [...]
In Transit
If you ever have to sit in the Detroit Metro Airport, make sure you go down to the light tunnel that connects the two terminals… Psychedelic lights timed to music and everything…. I hung out there for a few minutes during a layover flying from Wisconsin back to Los Angeles.
Ocean Baptism
Photographed a baptism in the ocean this weekend during a Christian outreach event in Oceanside. They had a “Get Baptized Now” tent set up on the beach for anyone who was willing to stop by and be baptized.
The Queen Mary
I found myself aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor last night while I was waiting to shoot a roller derby match at the arena next door. As the sun had just set, there was some really cool light so I ran around the various decks of the boat and tried to get some [...]
Devil Pups Take the Plunge
I got to photograph the Devil Pups camp this week as they jumped from a 35-foot diving platform. The Devil Pups program is a 10-day camp held on Marine Base Camp Pendleton and was created back in the 50′s to instill a sense of self-confidence and respect in kids aged 14 to 17 (The name [...]
Night of Silhouettes – Photographing 4th of July
Fourth of July, or as I like to call it, a photojournalist holy day of obligation… I think I will probably be working every Fourth of July for the foreseeable future. I shot the Fourth of July fireworks at the San Clemente Pier and I realized that I took lots of silhouettes tonight. These are [...]
Joshua Tree National Park
Chelsea and I went camping in Joshua Tree National Park this past weekend and went out for a nighttime photo excursion to try and light a Joshua Tree at night. This is lit entirely with 2 flashlights– one from Chelsea on the right side of the photo and one from me at the front of [...]
Brewery Tour
Dream assignment — covering beer festivals and breweries. This is Left Coast Brewing Company in San Clemente, CA. The San Clemente Beer Festival helped raise money for welcome home programs for the Marines down the road at Camp Pendleton, which is never a bad thing either.
Pageant of the Masters
Last night, I got to attend a rehearsal for a performance known as the “Pageant of the Masters” in Laguna Beach. In a nutshell, the event uses live actors and life size sets to recreate classic artwork. It is billed as the event where “art comes to life” and it creates what they call “living [...]
Honey West
I am not sure I could adequately explain how I ended up in Gloria Fickling’s home yesterday evening but it was certainly random. Basically, we went to the Laguna Beach Art Crawl and Gloria was a friend of a friend. We got to know Gloria or “Glori” during the evening and Chelsea and I ended [...]
Under the Pier
I realized yesterday evening that nobody has ever photographed surfers OR the San Clemente Pier so I set out yesterday to be the first photographer to ever photograph a surfer walking down the beach in San Clemente. My result:
The Long Way to California
More photos from our drive out to California. We could have gone the shorter way through West Texas, New Mexico, etc, but we wanted to go through Colorado and Utah which made it a bit longer. In turn, we got to see Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park in Southwestern Utah.
Waiting for Superman
Superman on the Las Vegas Strip. One of many characters I saw that night (and definitely the most tame…)
Well That Was Unexpected
While driving out to California for our internship in San Clemente this summer, Chelsea and I passed through Colorado via I-70 (which has to be one of the most beautiful stretches of interstate in this country…). I expected the scenic views. What I didn’t expect was how much snow was still around this late in [...]
