October 2010 Photo of the Month
I wanted to keep my theme going of a recent post to the Outdoor Photographer Magazine Blog regarding the creative use of my iPhone. This image was taken in a hardware store near the Haight/Ashbury district. The repetitive patterns of the bags of seeds caught my eye, but once I began to analyze the image [...]
September 2010 Photo of the Month
After such an amazing evening hike and dinner with Heather and the kids I couldn’t help myself this month. I had to use one of the images as a photo of the month. I was fortunate enough to capture this photograph at the bottom of the Paradise Trail as we finished our hike in complete [...]
August 2010 Photo of the Month
The photo I have chosen for this month’s photo is a little different then past choices and hopefully a new way of highlighting how I see the world. Don’t get me wrong, I love photographing nature and adventure but I am also taking to more literal types of photography. Possibly a bit towards photojournalism, but [...]
July 2010 Photo of the Month
It is almost time. A time when the snow covered meadows that surround Mount Rainier National Park begin to erupt into a summer splendor of pattern and color. It was almost a year to the day that I captured this image. It is a study of pattern and texture. There is no single subject for [...]
June 2010 Photo of the Month
The spring in Washington has be really windy this year. Since this is my first year here, I am not really sure if it happens every year. It seems like every road bike ride is into the wind–both ways–for all of the miles. For this month’s photo I wanted something that would portray that wind. [...]
May 2010 Photo of the Month
Our photo this month was taken by Jay last summer while he was working on a project in Yellowstone National Park. The reason we decided to post it for the photo of the month this month is because Jay is there right now shooting more images for the project. Hopefully he will be willing to “leak” [...]
April 2010 Photo of the Month
Last week I captured a ton of photos because Heather took the kids to Colorado to visit the grandparents. Having this new found “freedom”, I took the opportunity to spend one of the days exploring Olympic National Park. As I was driving out to the beach for the anticipated sunset, this scene along Barnes Creek [...]
March 2010 Photo of The Month
I often look to abstract painters for inspiration in my photographic work. This idea of looking elsewhere is not new, I know many photographers that do it. It has done one major thing for me – put me always on the look out for new and interesting compositions. I don’t care what time of day [...]
February 2010 Photo of the Month
I have had a really good week. Colleague John O’Conner inspired me with a few super simple image compositions that he posted to his facebook page. I drew more inspiration from a video of urban trials rider Danny MacAskill. And, was able to witness an amazing light display at my own private beach that allowed [...]
January 2010 Photo of the Month
This month I was looking for something I haven’t posted a ton of lately…a wildlife image. I have been really focused on landscape photography for some reason and that barely touches the gammut of what I shoot. I captured this image last spring while working on a project about Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. [...]
Niner for Zero Niner before Zero Niner of Zero Ten
Here are 9 images of mine from 2009, posted right before the ninth day of 2010. They may not be award winners, but they all contain a congruent theme – a little bit of my year. This year has been full of transition for me. My overall mission was really simple – to become a [...]
December 2009 Photo of the Month
Last week the rain that we have been engulfed in for over six weeks just decided to up and clear one afternoon. I was so shocked that I almost didn’t grab my camera and head out. I was “too busy working on the computer”,”in a van, down by the river” and did not want to [...]
November 2009 Photo of the Month
Winter is slowly creeping upon us. I was thinking of a place. Someplace that I have only been to once. Playa del Carmen, Mexico. I am not a beach goer in any sense of the word. I would rather sit and freeze my but off in the mountains any day of the week, searching for [...]
October 2009 Photo of the Month
This month’s image was taken in early September from the end of the Mount Baker Highway near Mount Baker Ski Area in Washington State. My wife Heather, daughter Jade, and son Micah and I were shooting some hiking images for an upcoming calendar along the trails above Artist Point, when we stumbled upon this tarn [...]
May 2009 Photo of the Month
It was hard for me to choose an image for this month’s photo, probably because I am still recovering from the birth of our son Micah. I am not a queasy guy, blood, has little to no effect on me. I have watched numerous surgeries without even the thought of feeling uneasy. Yes I am [...]
April 2009 Photo of the Month
I am currently in South Texas competing in the Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest and last night I was rewarded with an image that I feel everyone should see, and consequently I have made it the photo of the month. Most of the images that I have seen of rattlesnakes have depicted them in ways [...]
February 2009 Photo of the Month
Heather and I have been together for almost 12 years. We have always struggled to find a New Year’s celebration that has kept us talking about the experience for the months following. The parties that we remember often are the ones in which we were always with those closest to our hearts. I think 2000 [...]
Best of 2008
My friend Jim Goldstein is currently running a blog project that highlights photographer’s best images for this past year. I am in the process of creating a marketing piece that looks at what I have worked on in 2008, so I have decided to join Jim’s mission and make this month’s “photo of the month” [...]
December 2008 Photo of the Month
The photo this month was taken last winter during the height of one of the best ski seasons ever. It was snowing so often that the fir trees had little or no time for their needles to free themselves of snow before the next storm cycle rolled in. This shot was taken in the Vail [...]
November 2008 Photo of the Month
The image that I have selected this month is an abstract water image. It was taken at the headwaters of Maroon Creek in the Aspen/Snowmass Wilderness. I utilized the reflection of aspen trees in peak fall color with the movement of the creek water as it flowed downstream for my composition. With abstract photographs like [...]
October 2008 Photo of the Month
This month we are traveling south, very close to Great Sand Dunes National Park. I was teaching a private workshop when we decided to stop and photograph the oncoming thunderstorm. The rabbitbrush was peaking, the earth was parched, and the clouds were quickly turning day into night. I used a barbed wire fence to bring [...]
September 2008 Photo of the Month
Since June, Jay has been shooting locally in Eagle, Colorado to capture images for an upcoming, extremely, limited fine art book. One of the new images was taken in area just south of Eagle named Lime Park. This photograph was shot looking north at the Sawatch Mountain Range just as the sun was setting on [...]
July 2008 Photo of the Month
This spring and now summer have been a great year for wildflower photography here in Colorado. We had a huge snow pack followed by a cooler, wet spring which has given the flowers the temperatures and water they need to not only stick around, but to also bloom in force unlike previous years. In this [...]
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