One of the great honors of my life has been the chance to work with, and be mentored by National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin. Generous with his knowledge and always quick with a smile, Flip taught me by example how to work smarter rather than harder and to always be ready for the moment [...]
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. – Baba Dioum, 1968
There are very few things in this world more painful or necessary for me than keywording my images. I realized this fact in 2005 after joining Aurora Photos as a contributing photographer and almost immediately saw that poorly keyworded images did not sell well on the internet. In 2005 I was keywording my images with [...]
On a recent trip to Beijing, China I met a fabulous violinist named Lin. As a violin player myself there was an instant connection and through the course of the evening I got to hear Lin’s story. Lin, had always wanted to play the violin, but came of age during the cultural revolution when the [...]
I’m sitting in front of my laptop computer as is often the case after a photo shoot trying to sort the keepers from the flops. I’m so tired from rising up before the sun to bump down a red dirt road in order to be in the place of maximum potential this morning that its [...]
Something that really clicked for me yesterday was the idea that there are two ways to fill my cup. I can fill it with external things like possessions, peoples approval and accomplishments – but these always seem to drain out quickly and I wind up on a never ending treadmill of trying to get more [...]
The front porch of the Hi Hoolana neatly frames a stunning panorama from the island of Lanai, to the King Kamehameha palm grove all the way over to the west end of the island of Molokai. For those of you who haven’t visited the Hui for a photo workshop, the front porch is not only [...]
See The Light, a workshop I am teaching with Dewitt Jones on Molokai has begun, and Dewitt started the week off with a question: What is the most important life lesson you have learned from your photography? I can think of hundreds of life lessons I have learned from my photography, but one of the lessons [...]
Stock photography today is based on one simple truth: You don’t have to be a great photographer to take great photos. This simple truth is bad news to stock photographers in much the same way that the French Revolution was bad news for the monarchy. Just as the monarchy collapsed in three years under the [...]
Ansel Adams once said - I can’t verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt… When I’m ready to make [...]
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