Last week I had the incredible honor of being invited to photograph the picking of Paradise Ridge Winery’s Estate grapes. Those who know me know that I have a passion for wine and the wine making process. So, when I was presented with this opportunity, let’s just say I was in the car before the […]
So, there I was lying on my belly photographing a JV football game at Montgomery High school in Santa Rosa California. I turned to look down the side line and I saw a perfect top banner photo for a web site. This was a night game so I needed to boost the ISO to 400 […]
Here is my all time favorite image from my Rust series. My wife was attending a training seminar in the east bay and I decided to tag along. While she was in training I decided to head down to the marina that was close by to see what I could photograph. To my surprise there […]
When composing your landscape photography, keep a watchful eye on the horizon. For a feeling of wide open space in your landscape photos, place the horizon low in the composition to show the expanse of the sky. Put the horizon high in most other cases, when you want to throw attention on the land itself. […]
As I have mentioned in past posts I really like patterns and textures. So, one day on my deck I was playing around with a strip of lathing wire and a spray bottle of water and this is one of the photos I got from just playing around. Here is what I did: I unrolled […]
This is another photo I shot at Baker Beach just south of the Golden Gate Bridge. I really like this photo because the broken anchor looks like a whale fluke breaching the water or in this case concrete. With the Golden Gate Bridge and the mouth of the bay in the background it really drives […]
I just love close up shots of almost anything that has lots of detail and repeating patterns. When I came across this I had to play. What caught my attention were the twists in the wires. They are almost identical the entire way around. Please enjoy. Camera specs: Canon EOS 30D with Canons EF S18 […]
Last week I was out scouting locations for two separate photo shoots. I found a wondrous place just down the street from where I live. The place is Paradise Ridge Winery located at 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive in Santa Rosa, California. This place is – let’s see – what’s the word I am looking […]
Last week I posted a photo of Jennifer from a photo shoot we did out at the Mare Island Ship yard in Vallejo, California. I thought that I would give Rebekah equal publicity time. I used my retouching process to work with this photo of Rebekah. The photo below is the final image. The other […]
Over the weekend Steve Bryan over at Cygnus Studios set us up with a wonderful opportunity to photograph 2 beautiful models (Jennifer and Rebecca) at the old Mare Island Naval Base. I cannot tell you how excited we all were to have this opportunity. As we were driving through the base we were hyperventilating as […]
