BEST OF 2009
As we wrap up the first week of the new year I can’t help but reflect on the past year. There were struggles as there are with anything, but I’d be remised if I didn’t sit back and be thankful for the good things. I met a lot of great people, made a few [...]
AFRICA
I have a laundry list of things to do and update and one of the most important things on my “to blog” list is my images from my trip to southern Africa last July. I spent a little over a week exploring various locales from the coastal villages near Cape Town to the border of [...]
IN PRINT: Africa book
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: AFRICA (self-published photo book)
PUBLICATION DATE: January 2010
LINK: n/a
NOTES: This little book has been a long time coming. Back in July of 2009 I spent a little over a week exploring Southern Africa and came away with a diverse set of images from the coastal villages near Cape Town to big game hunting [...]
KILLING TO CONSERVE
During my visit to Africa in July of last year, I spent a couple of days with Joeseph Ramakokovhu and Ruben Mhiangu of the Marula Lodge. The pair of native South Africans from the Venda and Sotho tribes, respectively, work as trackers for the big game lodge that caters to foreigners. The owner of the [...]
IPHONE ADVENTURE
Every year Libby and I send out a self-designed holiday card using our own skills as graphic artists and photographers. When it came time to produce this year’s card we had some initial trouble coming up with a fresh idea. After a bit of thinking I came up with the idea of using images taken [...]
IN PRINT: Planet Funk in Qatar for Health and Fitness
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Health and Fitness Magazine
PUBLICATION DATE: December 2009
LINK: http://www.healthandfitnessmag.com/
NOTES: This is a two-page spread in the December 2009 issue of Health and Fitness Magazine about Planet Funk’s trip to Qatar in October. I accompanied the group and had an incredible time. I did a fair amount of video in addition to my still [...]
DESTINATION: QATAR
I’ve been pretty busy lately and have much to catch up on the blog world. I still need to update my blog with my stuff from Africa, Brazil and my story completed at the Eddie Adams Workshop last month, but this post is devoted to a rather interesting trip I took last week to Qatar [...]
STREET ART RIO
After spending a good bit of time in Brasil, Ive noticed that in most cities, namely Rio de Janeiro, street art, whether it be graffiti, wheat pasting, stenciling or another form is thought of and subsequently dealt with a lot differently than it is here in Houston. Of course this differential may be a lot [...]
ARKANSAS VIA IPHONE
Last Wednesday I hopped on a plane and was whisked off to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was helping out another local photographer who shoots a lot of energy and gas industry stuff on a shoot in Blytheville, Arkansas, a little sleepy town in the northeastern corner of the state, just south of the Missouri state [...]
IN PRINT: Bloody Midgets featured on SportsShooter
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: SportsShooter.com
PUBLICATION DATE: January 23rd, 2009
LINK: http://sportsshooter.com
NOTES: I was delighted to see my essay on midget wrestling was featured on the front page over at SportsShooter.com. See the entire series on my main portfolio website HERE.
BLOODY MIDGETS
What a weekend! I’ve been pretty busy shooting the past week. After shooting several assignments this week for the Houston Chronicle, I decided to take Friday night and shoot something for myself. I had seen that the Half Pint Brawlers were coming into town for a midget wrestling show and I knew that I had [...]
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
I have been doing a lot of video work, self-teaching and archiving lately, but today I actually did some still shooting so I felt it facilitated a blog posting. I was planning on heading out to check out some extreme ice sculpture when I found out that a few friends of mine were headed out [...]
ALL ON BLACK
I spent the last couple of days exploring Atlantic City and the Jersey shore. When the lady visits we usually make it a point to spend my days off exploring a new city or area of the East Coast. There are so many interesting areas within a few hours of Baltimore. It takes a significant [...]
AFTERMATH
I am slowly but surely getting my images and projects from the past few weeks edited and posted. Tonight I edited a few images from an essay I shot in my hometown of Galveston, Texas of the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. I only had a few hours on the island since they were still under [...]
PPC FIRST WEEK
So yesterday was the magically Internet hook-up day for me at my new Baltimore City place. It was a long time coming as life is frustrating when you are in a new place, away from friends and family, without Internet. Ive been working at Patuxent Publishing Company for a week now and it has been a ride so [...]
RIO
I have finally begun working on putting something together using my stills and video that I gathered on my trip to Rio de Janeiro back in January. Not exactly sure what direction it will end up taking, but for now here is a teaser of my introduction thus far.
THE BACKYARD
These images are from a small group of photos i took this afternoon at my aunt’s house in Ohio. All of them shot with a 5D and a 50mm 2.5 macro lens. Nothing was touched or moved, I simply explored my surroundings in search of interesting patterns, colors, and shapes. This little mini photo essay [...]
SANDUSKY, OHIO
I’ve been here in Akron, Ohio for almost a week now. I have a bunch of family out here . An obligatory 2 hour trek out to Sandusky was made last Friday and it was amazing as always. Sandusky is known for two things: Being the location of Tommy Boy and a little peninsula that juts into Lake [...]
MIGHTY KITES
Today a few friends and I broke out the kites and decided to head to a park near here, Challenger Park and fly. We’ve also decided to name our kite flying team, The Mighty Kites ala Scrubs. It’s a fun event. Tomorrow we are taking Mighty Kites or MK to the island in search of better winds [...]
ALL HOPPED UP ON…STARBUCKS?
Wow. What a week! As you can see from my last entry, last weekend was filled with parties and NCAA basketball. Monday I assisted Robert with an awesome shoot. Wednesday I was taking photos of Planet Funk as they filmed a show for Oprah in Houston. Wednesday we also worked in Bolivar filming part of our [...]
BRAZIL
And no I’m not talking about Blanka’s stage on the original Street Fighter. I’m talking about a country so rich in culture it drowns you. I spent the first two weeks of 2008 in Brazil and was so impressed by the beauty and ethnology of the nation Id have liked to just stayed. Although there are an [...]
A NEW FRIEND
For those that are not aware, Ive been shooting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the last week or so and it has been an amazing experience thus far. It’s January and since Brazil is in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the height of Summer here. The day I arrived the temperature reached 102F however since [...]
A 12 HOUR PLANE RIDE & A FRESH OUTLOOK
…or maybe it’s just jet lag. I haven’t blogged in more than a few days, mainly due to the fact that I haven’t really been shooting much save the lot of cheesy family snapshots with my new Canon G9. I had been meaning to buy a smaller Canon compact camera for some time and the [...]
