As some of you may know, Matthew and I take care of a special needs adult — David — who lives wth us. Or, do we live with him? I’m never sure. In truth, it was I who moved in with Matthew and David, not David who moved in with Matthew and I. While this […]
I was going to start a multi part blog post today about when I owned Cool World, my old aquarium store. But I still have more to say about Trabajo en Mexico, my job in Mexico. A post script. First, despite the brush with Policia Federales, despite my idiocy of losing my exit paper and […]
I fell into bed on the third floor of the Juan Peron Aeropuerto International (wait, that’s not the name! Juan Peron was Argentina….how could I ever make that mistake?) in the weirdest Hilton you have ever seen. Even the room lighting was weird. Fluorescent? I think? I’m not sure, but it was a blueish, greenish […]
When I was a little kid, my mom would be driving Izzy, the 1972 Ford Pinto, and I would be seated in the back seat. This was before Ford Pintos were recalled for spontaneously combusting. We’d go past a mansion, often an embassy — I grew up near Washington, DC, and going past the embassy […]
Yesterday, a client called about an event I have coming up in December. It’s the coolest event! We go to two different retirement communities (these are VERY high end properties), and do holiday card photos. Last year, we offered actual holiday cards printed from Vista Print, in addition, participants could upload the photos to social […]
Let’s recap from part I, like the “previously on Dexter” series episodes: Our hero (me) checks into the swanky 5 star hotel, the Ritz Carlton LA Live!, a monolith of a building reaching into the LA sky like a hustler on five doses of Viagra. Our hero (me) asked for a room on an upper […]
As regular readers of this blog know, I travel a lot. I consider a short trip a flight less than 2 hours. I consider anything In driving distance not a trip, even if I’m staying in a hotel. If it’s more than a 4 hour drive, I fly. Unless I can’t because it’s in […]
Today and tomorrow mark the last race of the Indycar season, and I write this from in back of the Honda tent while Matthew shoots. For me, the end of the season is a mixed bag of emotions. On one hand, we’ve done 14 races, roughly 40 days of shooting, and the feeling of accomplishment […]
**** (Blog note: I try to make this blog a realistic depiction of what it’s like to be a working, travelling, international event photographer. In most cases, my clients, my team, and I form bonds that last for years. We look forward to seeing each other, and life is good. But that’s not always the […]
Sometimes you get a call that says: “Um, I’m not sure exactly what we want…” And that job evolves and changes, morphing from one concept to the next until inspiration strikes. Here is a mockup sent to the client last night for a shoot this evening at Washington’s Newseum. It is one of several backgrounds, […]