When spending money gets out of focus
Last month I led two Introduction to Photography courses and one of the things I saw repeated in each course is that the beginners don’t want a lot. They are not asking to be the next Ansel Adams or Steve McCurry. But the one thing almost all of them do want is a simple portrait [...]
Good to Great
There are people in this world that spend their entire life trying to get better at something they’re plainly mediocre at or even things they’re bad at doing. In fact, society has built institutions around the concept of “be better at what you are bad at; work on your weaknesses”. Haven’t we have all heard [...]
A Photographic Workout
So, you want to get better at taking photos. Ok, great. Are you ready to work at it? I often get this comment either in the form of a question or a declarative statement. It reminds me of my own declarative statement that I keep coming back to: “I need to lose weight.” In many [...]
Guest Post: I'm going to let you into a little secret…
…it is this: “I sometimes get others to say what I cannot put so well myself because of the weakness of my language, and sometimes because of the weakness of my intellect.” Of course, that’s not my quote, it was penned by Michel de Montaigne, who, Wikipedia tells me, was one of the most influential [...]
Steve McCurry Sharp
One of the fun and quite frankly, thrilling things that digital imaging has been able to deliver that film never did, is the ability to give you truly razor sharp images. Yeah, we had sharp images in the film days, but not like what we can get now. With the digital cameras ability to grab [...]
Malaysia Images Loaded
If you have a moment, check out the the newly uploaded images from a small village on an island named Pulau Perhentian Kecil of the east coast of Malaysia. Hope you enjoy them. Had a great opportunity yesterday. I sat in a lecture and slide show by Steve McCurry. You know who he is, you [...]
Stuck in KL
Well, as I type this I am sitting on the floor in the Kuala Lampur International Airport with my wife and 10 year old daughter, Jessie, waiting for a new plane. Yes, the old one we were in broke on take off. It wasn’t really scary, just kinda odd. The pilot was throttling up for [...]
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. 
