First off, let me make a wish for all of you to have a peaceful New Year.
After the tragic, but not surprising news that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated this past week, it got me pondering a bit.
A few of the things I pondered were the following:
Was her assassination inevitable?
Could this be a turning point like [...]

The light was beautiful on my street last night. Peach-edged, backlit clouds, and a little moisture in the air made it a perfect time for shooting. While I love my suburban street, there are power lines and telephone poles in all directions, making pictures less than perfect. But that’s where photo [...]

As common as Wedding-photography has gotten (can you say “Ubiquitous“?) the New York Times has this item on an increasingly popular trend of “Engagement photos”

“Paparazzi” hired to capture-the-moment when “He” pops-the-question and “She” always says “Yes!” (What? She doesn’t always say “yes“?… It doesn’t say what they do in that case, but I’m sure the [...]

Every time I’m at church, I’m amazed at how good the lighting is.  It’s extremely flattering and would create such wonderful portraits.  But I’ll never be able to use it.  Frustrating.
I’m not sure how I’d even approach recreating it.  It’s a mix of sunlight, incandescent, and florescent, in odd formations and reflections.  But it works.

We finally attacked the garage. After three years of living with a packed garage (ala one of those depressing clean-the-clutter tv shows), we finally cleaned up and cleaned out. Granted, all of the junk was not our own. We inherited 60 years worth of garage workshop engine grease, nuts, bolts, cobwebs, [...]

This past weekend was the annual Route 66 Rendezvous put on by the city of San Bernardino, California.
Only having about 15-million other things to get done, my wife and I decided we needed to spend a few hours at the Rendezvous!

Light is different everywhere in the world. Atmosphere, angle of the sun, weather, seasons, and geography can all impact how light behaves. I didn’t really understand this until I moved to California 13 years ago. The light is so different here than in New York and New England where I had [...]

Photography is all about light, right?

The phrase “light-painting” or “painting-with-light” is much bantered about as the basis for the term “Photography”.
But, what about the dark?…