Monthly:August 2026
Photographers often get invited to inticing fashion events. Mainly because the event sponsor knows that a photographer would bring attractive, undiscovered models with them. Hot Models will always go when a photographer invites then because it is their chance to go to a cool fashion event and hopefully get discovered. One time I was attending this influential fashion event in San Francisco with two glamorous models. I mean, I was only in my twenties and what else am I […]
Back in the ’80s, there was a famous commercial photographer whose name was familiar to virtually everyone in the industry: Jay Maisel. Jay Maisel was a New York photographer who became both famous and wealthy by being one of the pioneers of commercial stock photography licensing. Today, you can find any kind of image online for pennies on the dollar. But back then, stock photography was a very different business. If you wanted to use a photograph, you licensed it. […]
I was fortunate enough to meet Steve Jobs twice.I also had the privilege of photographing his successor, Jean-Louis Gassée. The first time I met Steve was during a shoot for Macworld. A valued client at the time, for whom I created numerous images, including fourteen cover shots over the years. This particular assignment was to help introduce the iMac. The first bold, colorful, and “hip” personal computer. I had been warned that Steve’s schedule was extremely tight and that […]
She was begging me. So I gave in. I was lucky enough to meet Robin Williams more than once in the studio. He was just as warm, funny, and down-to-earth as you’d hope. His passing hit me hard. Not because we were close friends, but because this world is a lesser place without him in it. I have three stories to share that involve Robin. Two center around other people’s reactions to fame. The third is a great lesson about […]
It was about ten o’clock on a Saturday morning in late 1999. I was still a young man, and I stood on a sidewalk in the SOMA area of San Francisco, watching a bulldozer and a crane tear apart a building I had recently bought. The cracking of old timbers and the thunderous collapse of the roof brought one thought sharply into focus: What the hell am I doing? I was a photographer, not a developer, contractor, architect, demolition […]
