NEW YEARS IN JAPAN
Given my partial Japanese heritage, I was excited to hear I would be ringing in 2012 in my motherland of Japan. After nearly three weeks of exploring Tokyo, Kyoto, et al, I headed back stateside and dove back into the daily grind of business. Between a film camera and my digital arsenal I was able to chronicle my trip in more ways than one. Check out my favorite images from my trip and read all about my experiences after the jump!
BEST OF 2011
Ive been in Japan for the past few weeks so the annual “Best Of” post has been postponed until now. 2011 seemed to come and go in a breeze. Check out my brief year-end wrap up and 100 of my favorite images made in the year 2011 after the jump.
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
After a few hectic weeks of non-stop shooting and editing in early August, I decided to drop everything and take a VERY spontaneous trip across The American Southwest. Loaded with a digital SLR, one of my GoPro HD cameras, my trusty Polaroid Spectra, and a few other film cameras, I set out on a brief, but exciting, Kerouacian adventure. Check out the story and images after the jump!
SXSW 2011
As I mentioned in my post last week, the past month or so has been crazy. A lot of actual shooting has given way to a lot of time editing and while I still have a ways to go to catch up (do we ever really catch up?) I wanted to pause for a second [...]
BEST OF 2010
2010 was a crazy year filled with lots of surprises. If you were to ask me a year ago, where I would be in a year, I most likely wouldn’t be anywhere near the reality of it all. Check out my annual, end-of-year, post filled with my favorite images made throughout 2010 here.
TO AMSTERDAM AND BEYOND!
In October of 2010 I traveled to The Netherlands and Western Germany on assignment. The team was busy, but we did have a bit of time to explore. We visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam and several Western German towns. Read about the adventure and see the photos here.
GEEKFEST: THE AFTERMATH
In late September, I attended Geekfest, the annual gathering for the members of APAD. A great time was had just like previous years. See photos and the story here.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 4 OF 4: IPHONE
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the last in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with the camera on my Apple iPhone 4.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 3 OF 4: LUBITEL
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the third in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lubitel twin lens medium format camera.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 2 OF 4: 5D
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the second in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Canon 5D mark II digital camera.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 1 OF 4: OKTOMAT
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the first in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lomo Octomat 35mm camera.
SXSW 2010
It’s almost been a week since I departed Houston for Austin and the live music mecca that is South by Southwest, yet it still feels like I’m recovering. It’s mostly the severe seasonal allergies, but the journey wore me out, like it does every year, but like every year, I had a blast and saw [...]
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 new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
IN PRINT: Rio Feature for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine PUBLICATION DATE: October 2009 LINK: http://houstonpettalk.com NOTES: I shot this feature during my last trip to South America. I was there working on other essays, but decided to explore the intricacies of pet life in Rio for Pet Talk Magazine’s new travel section. I wanted to show that like [...]
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 [...]
SXSW 2009
Well, this year I actually applied for media credentials in time for SXSW which meant it was justified to spend more than a day or two in Austin during the annual South by Southwest festival. SXSW has a film and interactive aspect that I really wanted to make it out to especially since I am [...]
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 [...]
