This June our ’86 mazda Pickup bit the dust. Last Saturday our ’95 Stratus started billowing smoke and died on the side of the freeway. Facing a $1200 (and likely more) repair on a car with 190,000 miles we decided to retire Silvia, our Stratus. My brother-in-law, Jason, mentioned that there is a new kind...
Yesterday our friend Matt married his best friend Dana, and I had the privilege of photographing their wedding. I’m not joking when I say that I cried a half a dozen times yesterday. Matt and Dana have the kind of relationship that reminds me of everything good. There are some relationships that call any cynic...
This is Christy’s image from our shoot-off. I think that it matchs my “full time mom and part time photographer” brand. I’m shooting her big fat 135mm 2.0L lens. It’s a long heavy lens that has little grace for hand shake. I had a lot of blurry images from shooting like this. Yes, it’s November. ...
Yesterday the kids and I spent the morning with Christy Pacanowski. She’d a fantastic portrait and family photographer in Zeeland. She has 3 kids that Win and Harriet love playing with. 2 weeks ago she shot some images of me with my camera. Yesterday was her turn to be in the hot seat. She put...
Win was in our living room playing with one of our reading lights. I thought that I would play with the light a little too. This is great example of how the dynamic range of a camera is much smaller than the human eye. When I shot these pictures I could see plenty of things...
