Earl Thomas was back in the studio today, this time to get promo shots with the gospel choir he is touring with. While I was photographing the four of them they gave me a mini concert. Quite a nice fringe …
I met Valerie at the fair, as she was one of the dairy princesses handing out the ice cream samples at the Humboldt Creamery booth that was next to ours. Valerie impressed me by staying cheerful throughout the fair, something …
Phil Ostler had a scissor lift in town so he could clean and repair gutters, and since it was a full moon last night I thought it would be a great opportunity to take some photos from a unique position. …
It has come around again. That day were ye might notice scallywags natterin’ wit’ a bit o’ a piratanical bent. Aye, ’tis once again time fer “Talk Like a Pirate” day. ‘n t’ help ye natter like a pirate, ye …
Before I started moving out, I took a pano shot of the studio on Main Street that has been my home for 5 years. Compare this beautiful room with the one we started with back in May of 2002. What …
Laura East came out at the end of each performance this weekend wearing this red flapper dress to take her well deserved bows. Great show Laura! Lots of hard work went into the show by the cast and crew, and …
A shot that I’ve wanted to get for a long time was a panoramic of the sun setting in the west at Fernbridge and the moon rising in the east over the Eel River. I’ve tried it a couple of …
The annual Ferndale Dance Academy recital this year is Ella, the classic story of Cinderella, set in the Roaring ’20s. Today I shot the first of two dress rehearsals. The show starts Thursday, and Laura has sold out 3 shows …
I went for a ride on the KLR650 up to Route 1 in the South Fork Mountains to go see my favorite wildflower show. Unfortunately I was probably a week too late and missed most of it. I had been …
Ferndale Dance Academy is getting ready to produce this year’s dance event, Ella, a retelling of the classic Cinderella story. Aesthetic Design & Photography donated the publicity photos, and we just put up a new web site for them at …
After leaving Hell to Find Lake, Blake and I continued on down NF30 to my favorite pond. It was actually while I was looking at this pond on Google Earth trying to locate a name for it that I stumbled …
Alesia contacted me from ModelMayhem.com, where I have a portfolio. The shoot I had planned didn’t come off, once again because it was too windy, but there’s always a plan B with me when shooting outdoors up here. This was …
Lori and I spent the day with Dan and Daria, photographing their simple wedding at the Shaw House and then traveling to the beach and the redwoods for photos afterwards. Beach was a bit windy so we didn’t spend too …
Lori and I went out to Pamplin Grove to photograph the wedding of John and Robin. They are from Minnesota, and came out to Humboldt County for a planned elopement. After photographing the short ceremony, we went out to the …
Lori and I are working on a web site for Bear River Valley Beef, so we went out to Bear River to gather photos. It was a beautiful spring day, and a wonderful time to be in Bear River Valley …
I went down to Legget to the “World Famous Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree” to take a photo of this armored truck for Dunbar’s 2008 calendar. Obviously, this truck didn’t actually drive throught the tree. In fact after I got there I …
Today the Rep had a big 35th Anniversary festival, and one part of that was assembling alumni in the theatre for a group shot. Lighting this had me a bit puzzled as the theatres walls and especially the ceiling aren’t …
Greg Rumney had a macro lens he wasn’t using, and I had two hard drives I wasn’t using. He needed something to back up his computer, so it seemed like a good trade. Today while I was at home still …
Finally fell of the fence in deciding what to replace my dead Fuji S1 with. Ordered a Nikon D80 last week and it arrived yesterday. I got a chance to play with it today and the most noticeable thing about …
With the snowpack quickly melting in the heat, there were lots of cascades along the route during my ride yesterday. This one was very pretty. I only had my little Pentax with me and no tripod so I couldn’t do …
With Lori being temporarily out of work I’ve been accepting jobs I wouldn’t normally relish. Such as photographing manholes. For lawyers. I was referred by a friend for this job, which was to document this manhole for an upcoming personal …
Most of the snow photos were almost monochromatic so I liked how they looked in black and white better. Funny, I never cared much for black and white photography until I started shooting digital. Now I find I tend to …
Just as I was getting ready to take this photo the snow started sliding off of the roof of the little barn. I would have liked to caught that, but I was still setting up the camera.
Another photo from Thursday, this is part of the Whatcheer Ranch. If you know the area, you know they were being sarcastic when they named it that. Did look pretty cheerful this morning though. I saw this on the way …
In the area where water drains into Kinman Pond there are tufts of grass growing that collected the snow and made very interesting patterns. Right when I was photographing this shot the sun came out full burst and provided the …
When it snows in the local hills, this is one of my favorite places to go take pictures, Kinman Pond. Named for Seth Kinman, who was famous for making chairs out of antlers, the pond is located up in the …
Lori and I went back up Monument this morning to take sunrise pictures in the snow. We were blockaded in our efforts by this group of frozen cattle. They didn’t look at all happy to have to get up and …
I was on my way up to Crescent City for a business class, passing through Arcata when I came to this patch of snow on 101. If the trees on the left side of the freeway weren’t there, you’d be …
ell for the second week in a row, our plans for our Monday excursion were foiled. Last week our snowshoeing trip went to Plan B due to lack of snow. Today we were planning to go to Fern Canyon, but …
