Dawn over the Southland
16 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: personal, travel
From the plane at dawn. Thats the backside of the San Bernandino mountains, with the LA Basin covered in clouds. Big Bear is in there somewhere….
It’s Hot in Here
12 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: nature, personal, travel
I took these while camping in a glacial valley in the Peruvian Andes. What’s left of the glacier is seen here.
Because of global warming, these glaciers are melting fast. They’ll soon be gone forever.
Do Something. Now.
Antigua
11 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: travel
Late afternoon in Antigua, Guatemala.
This shot is from a while ago, but I never posted it. Enjoy.
Webina
03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: portrait, personal, travel
Webina de la selva. La orilla de Laguna de Chame, Panama.
Ship
26 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: personal, travel
In a rainstorm, a darkened cargo ship in the Bahia de Panama waits its turn to go through the Panama Canal.
This photo is crazy vignetted and weird looking, but I didn’t do it in photoshop. Just came out like this!
Obama
08 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: news
2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to thousands of supporters during a campaign rally on the lawn of Santa Barbara City College on September 8th, 2007.
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Forget politics, Obama is the best public speaker I’ve ever seen. Hands down. The guy is magnetic.
Burning Man
05 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: personal
“Trying to explain Burning Man to someone who has never been is like trying to explain the color red to a blind man.”
I went to Burning Man with an open mind. I was intent on spending time with my close friends, and to enjoy the experience fully as a participant. It was so exhilarating on an emotional and visceral level that taking it all in was completely overwhelming.
I didn’t go to the desert to make a photo essay or to “cover” Burning Man. To stand back and shoot the seminal moments of the event at dusk, dawn, and night for eight days requires putting on a journalists hat and staying the observer, something I had no interest in doing. Despite the endless, and I do mean endless, opportunity for making amazing images, I took my camera out very sparingly.
Burning Man is an event that embraces gift giving in place of monetary exchange. Hence, many of the following photos are of friends I made there, and they are intended as a gift to them instead of a purely journalistic or photographic pursuit.
If you are looking for complete coverage, look to the work by the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. I hope you enjoy these snaps I took at Burning Man. More importantly, you need to be planning on going next year.
Getting clean
27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: personal
Homeless veteran Don Brown of Ventura dires his hair after taking a shower in the public bathroom at the National Guard Armory in Ventura.
Band
27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: feature, VC Star
Drumline. They wear paper dunce hats because they are freshman.
