The Arcanum Prepares I mentioned some time back that I’m part of “The Arcanum: Magical Academy of Artistic Mastery“. Sounds fun, huh? It’s a new kind of school for the arts being created by awesome photographer and friend Trey Ratcliff. While it’s starting off with photography as the primary discipline, the vision is to branch out over…
It All Started For Me 3 Years Ago… Not in a galaxy far, far away… but in a Starbucks in Austin, TX. I was out for SXSW and a big photo walk led by my friend Trey Ratcliff. We sat down in Starbucks with his son Ethan for a warm and lovely mocha… and he…
Recently, I was invited by Sony to go to Nashville as part of a group of journalists, photographers, press and bloggers to try their brand new gear. The ones I was most interested in were the mirrorless cameras: the A7, A7r and RX10. I wrote a full “First Impressions” blog that is posted on Trey…
On May 14, 2013… I joined up with Virtual Photo Walks (click link to see the VPW event posting on G+) to broadcast the massive Google+ San Francisco Photo Walk with Trey Ratcliff and Thomas Hawk. (click the link to view Trey’s posted event on G+.) It was all part of kicking off Google I/O…
Anyone who knows me, knows that horses have occupied a LARGE part of my life, heart and soul. I was practically raised on a horse – and taught and trained horses for over 35 years. I don’t miss the industry one little but, but horses will always be a part of me. So, when I discovered…
I have learned that Lake Wakatipu is the longest lake in New Zealand. 50 miles in fact. And when the light changes, so does the color, in quite dramatic ways. Even on a stormy, stormy day the glacier fed waters seem iridescent, which I found almost startling! This was a couple of days before “Trey’s…
Our first couple of days in New Zealand have been rainy, rainy, rainy! Big winds, power outages, trees down – exciting! Trey Ratcliff, Curtis Simmons and Scott Kublin and felt intrepid and eager to get out and start photographing though… so with big smiles positive expectations we jumped in the truck and took to the road. We were…