One of the most brilliant developments since the digital revolution in photography is the ability to use High Dynamic Range (HDR). For anyone unfamiliar with this technique, in it’s simplest form, you make several exposures of a single image to ensure you have detail from the highlights all the way down to the shadows. Before...
I’ve had several opportunities now to photograph Former President Mikhail Gorbachev. Each time has been a venue where he has talked about his role in the fall of Communism in the USSR, now Russia. The first time I heard him speak about this was several years ago in Sacramento and can remember how impressed I...
Sometimes things come together in an accidental way that ends up working so well. Case in point, we were making food images for the Hanford House Inn in Sutter Creek because their breakfast is beyond good. It’s in a class of its own. I know because when we were done with this plate, it was...
I love photographing architectural interiors, especially kitchens. I have several clients who regularly call on me to make images of their recent work. The kitchen remodeling contractor who hired me for this is so good at designing the light in their kitchens, I simply cannot improve on what they’ve done with artificial light.
My feeling is,...
I received a unique call from an auction house – a nice one. They needed to photograph a collection of fossils that the owner wanted to sell at auction. The set included very small pieces as well as very large ones including a “slice” of stone containing hundreds of embedded fossils that measured about 8...
Corporate photography usually presents a unique challenge in that no two assignments are alike. Sometimes even two days for one client are drastically different. In the case of this image, the client needed images of mice in the research environment, but with a human element.
The specific challenge included coming up with a concept in the...
For the Hanford House website, the photos had to show details. This image ended up being one of my favorites of the take. The open door showing the detail of the brushed metal fixtures against the dark stained wood. I like the welcoming message it sends with the open door showing the modern furnishings and...
This image was made for the front page of the website of this bed and breakfast in the Gold Country. The brick building used to be the inn and has ten guestrooms. When the new owners purchased the bed and breakfast in 2008, they immediately set their eyes on purchasing the cottage next door. The...
Every so often, I get an opportunity to photograph someone whose global reach transcends fame or recognition. Desmond Tutu is one of those people. He is one of those people who truly needs no introduction.
Normally when I cover an event, my mind is more on making an image than what the subjects are talking about....
