I was looking back though my older achieves and came across this photo. I like the energy efficient friendly bulbs in this marquee in Las Vegas. The spirals of the florescent tubes caught my eye and had to take a few photos. Ok, you know me better than that. I took many photos of [...]

This year’s Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic was fantastic. The weather was perfect and all balloons got to launch. There were balloons everywhere.
We got there early so that we could capture the dawn patrol launch.  It an awesome sight to see the flame light up the balloons against the dark early morning sky. There [...]

I have driven past it hundreds of time and made a mental note that I should visit someday. In fact,  I did visit them about 10-12 years ago. And we were there 5 days earlier to drop off a baby quail that our neighbor rescued from their cat (see Squirrel TV for details). What the [...]

I was at the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club this last weekend shooting environmentals of a wedding event and as I was leaving I looked down the aisle one last time and I found a great pattern of chair shadows and a trail of rose petals on the green grass. Just had to get [...]

Horizon line
The rule here is to keep this bad boy out of the center of the frame unless you handle it skillfully. One of the reasons that we try to avoid centering the horizon is that is splits the frame in to two equal parts that can compete for the attention of [...]