Driving the red dirt road to Kamakou preserve on Molokai, one could easily mistake the landscape for western Tanzania. Grassy plains surrounded by wind sculpted trees make my eye look for the giraffe that will never walk into my frame. Today we found ourselves bouncing down this road in spite of the rain that insists [...]
This morning it was not the usual cacophony of birds and subtle song of wind chimes that woke me, but rather the melodic drumming of rain on the tin roof above my head. Before I was fully conscious I knew our plans of a field trip to the mesmerizing ancient rainforest had washed away and [...]
A comment by Mr. Miroslaw Swietek in response to these stunning insect photos refused to leave my mind today. Mr. Swietek said Its not the camera which takes pictures but the mind and the heart – and in mantra like fasion his comment repeated itself over and over in my mind during the photography workshop [...]
Ten minutes after I hit the publish button on “nothing endures but change…”, I wandered over to the front porch of the lodge at the Hui for morning check in. Check in is a time for my fellow instructors and I to set the compass for the days workshop and offer a open forum for [...]
As Heraclitus so wisely stated – nothing endures but change. For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path by the New York Times succinctly documents the radical change that has gone on in the stock photography industry over the last few years. Rather than bemoaning this new reality, I happily embrace it — for another adage [...]
A cacophony of birds awoke me on the island of Molokai this morning. Exquisite morning light whispered through the Koa trees as a wind chime sounded out its unpredictable melody to the day. This is my fifth year helping to teach Rekindling The Creative Spirit with Rikki Cooke, Dewitt Jones and Theresa Airey, and like [...]
FISH IN THE FILTER The massive cumulonimbus clouds ripe with rain were well over a month away from rolling atop the blue hills of the Western Ghat mountain range in Tamil Nadu and enveloping the region in the mist of monsoon. My pet project for the dry season at the photographic college where I was [...]
Last fall Software-Cinema approached me about putting together an instructional DVD on Photoshop CS4. As I write this, the DVD is going to press and should be released within the month. I am making my annual pilgrimage to Ketchum, Idaho at the end of February and will be offering a photography workshop titled “Photoshop [...]
Even though I have never visited Jaipur before, it is the India I remember… the wild merry go round of life. Full of friendly touts, and mad streets, blaring horns and sensory overload. The India that makes one realize that India is not for everyone. I have many more thoughts to verbalize from the day, but my eyes are [...]
Four years ago, the smog in Mumbai was so bad that walking around burned my eyes and wiping my face with a white handkerchief harvested a black crop of ash and dust after a couple of passes across my brow. According to my former student, now professional advertising photographer Amogh Thakur, two years ago the city [...]
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