A beautiful foggy morning at Michael’s. Making a quick iphone shot quick and easy. The other shot is downtown Mountain View. It was so surprising to see the streets empty in the middle of the weekday. Usually these street are fill with tables and chairs from the restaurant, along with plenty of people taking their lunch break.

iPhones, ( or any smartphone these days), are the best Point & Shoot cameras available.It can literally be taken out of your pocket, point the camera, click the button, and end up with a great shot. Someday I will put together an excursion with interested souls on how to take nice shots with a phone.For now, I just plan on getting in some practice myself and sharing what I come up with.* Shoreline Lake 12/14/23* iPhone 14 ProMax* Phone app […]

I was in discussion with a friend who has a yoga studio. She is struggling these days, as I am sure you can imagine. While explaining to me how she felt the great need for people to do yoga for both mind and body fitness, especially right now, I tried to imagine a way to get this point across.  So I came up with this image.  I will offer it free to anyone who wants to help promote their yoga […]

I have been working on a series for a few years, where I juxtapose the human figure against architectural shapes and forms. Last week we were in the studio experimenting with a new camera system.  Unfortunately the system did not work the way it was supposed to. But we ended up capturing some wonderful shots.  FYI – that’s a model, not me. For those people who may be getting confused…..      

Years ago, I used to grab my camera and go out in the early mornings or late afternoons with a friend of mine, Ron Shirley. We might go to the mountains or ocean, or we might go to the inner city. We would make the trips to do what we referred to as “Exercising the Eye”.  Which basically meant that we did not set out to capture any particular image, only to look for the beauty in the world and […]

I just completed doing a demo on retouching, using a shot I took a couple years ago. These days, it’s a requirement to be knowledgeable in retouching if you want to be a commercial photographer. I don’t do all of the retouching myself for commercial projects. Not that I do not know how, it’s more a matter of not always having the free time. But since basically ever shots you see in a magazine or even social media, has been […]

Located about 6 miles south of Marysville, Ca, the Arboga Assembly Center Memorial was a WWll Japanese detention campsite. The original center opened on May 8, 1942, holding 2,465 Americans of Japanese descend before its closing on June 29. The inmates then were transferred to the more permanent and isolated interment camp at Tule Lake. Many Japanese-Americans never recovered their belongings or reconnected with their families. And most lost their livelihood and had to start over. I like to look […]