Review: Easy Release app model release – The Best!
Last week I reviewed an iPod model release application that a lot of people really liked. It was called mRelease. In the comments there was talk about how it was virtually identical to another model release application called Easy Release. The author of Easy Release wrote in and said that this was really not the [...]
mRelease Review: A iPhone/Touch Model Release
It was a fun week and one in which I spent the majority on the beach. Ya can’t beat that! But unfortunately it wasn’t much fun on the blog with me swimming with the sharks… literally. But the trip did serve to allow me to test drive a few applications. One that I am very [...]
It’s all about Light and Relaxation
It’s been a quiet week around here. This week is my daughter’s spring break. So my wife and I decided to take Jessie to the beach. We pack up the car and took off with some friends to a small island off the west coast of Malaysia called Perhentian. There, we stayed at a small [...]
Damn the elephants! Full speed ahead!
By Shiloh Lane I almost got torpedoed on the way to work today. True story – sort of. To be completely accurate, a pile of torpedoes almost sideswiped my friends and I as our car vied for on-ramp space with a flatbed truck carrying said weapons and an army jeep. Strapped to the truck with [...]
Red Shirts and Black Smoke
I had a great day yesterday hanging out with Gavin Gough and Marco Ryan in Bangkok. We are working on the details of a new foundation that will soon be announced. More to come on that in the days ahead. But while here, Gavin invited Marco and me along as he continued his series on [...]
The Last Lantern Maker
Sometimes there are days that nothing seems to get done. This time that day lasted a whole week. I’ve started 100 projects and finished none. By Wednesday, I’d had enough and decided to grab my cameras and just go out and chase an idea I have had for about six months. There’s an old man [...]
Another New Blogger: Brian Hirschy
Brian Hirschy is a photographer friend of mine who lives in Western China. He runs photo workshops in the Tibetan region of China along with doing a few other things to keep busy. The other day he posted a story about being freaked out in the middle of the night by strange voices. I haven’t [...]
New Blogger: Heber Vega
A few weeks back I introduced you to Heber (pronounced like “ever” only with a “b”) Vega. Heber, if you recall, runs a NGO in Iraq, with his wife Belen and several staff. While in Iraq I taught his staff how to take better photos of the work they do so they can tell their [...]
A Culture of Strangers
by Shiloh Lane I grew up in a very small town in Kentucky; I went to college in another very small town in Kentucky; and when I went to “the big city” to go shopping, I really just went to a slightly larger small town in Kentucky. It suffices to say that I didn’t meet [...]
Depth of Field: Gary S. Chapman and Vivian Chapman
Gary S Chapman and wife Vivian Chapman’s goal is to help non-government organizations communicate with the public through stunning images. This is particularly important for NGOs working with disasters, or in areas of development. They are very good at it! Gary, originally a journalist for top rags like Louisville Courier Journal, brings a real photojournalist bent to [...]
March Wallpaper: Give Peace a Shot with IGVP!
This month’s wallpaper is courtesy of the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers. I am a member of several guilds and organizations, but there is none that I feel more proud to be a part of than the IGVP. Not only because I share membership with noted photographers like Ami Vitale, David duChemin, Gavin Gough and [...]
Culture Stress: Can’t Win for Losing
The interview I had planned for today would be better as a Depth of Field podcast. So, left with a blank piece of paper, or screen as the case may be, I found myself musing about last week’s guest post from author Shiloh Lane. She ruffled a lot of feathers and, quite frankly, I was [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
