Up From Baja: Point Lobos Migrates North

Posted on September 2, 2009 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment

Don’t know much about geology, but what I am learning defines me, in the nature of nature, as the insignifcant biped that I am. Paid a visit to the Pinnacles National Monument. Not recommended during the summer as the temperatures regularly hover around the 100F mark. The best time to go is in the cool [...]

The Hello Kitty Gate

Posted on April 22, 2009 - Filed Under Photography, Taiwan | Leave a Comment

Gate C3 at Taipei International Airport with a play area and piped in music that is not to everybody’s taste…unless of course you are a nine year old girl…or my daughter, who is 32.

Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape

Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 2 Comments

Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of clichÃ© America is a propaganda film called [...]

Review: Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | Leave a Comment

Most travel photographers work casually, keeping an eye out for the serendipitous or waiting for a mashup of subject, action and light in one magic “aha!” moment. Unlike Disney, I have never chased lemmings over a cliff or like Geographic, lit a cave with a thousand flashbulbs. My highest level of management is usually simply [...]