It is a privilege to live in Oregon. We are fortunate to have a beautiful state, with glaciated mountains, deserts, magical waterfalls, and a coast that belongs to all the people, thanks to the wisdom of Tom McCall.
I could spend the rest of my photographic life here and not run out of superb subject matter.
California is more than a state from the point of view of a photographer. It is an entire world of beautiful locations. These images cover a tiny fraction of the areas I would like to photograph.
Some were made travelling on my own and some at a workshop in December 2006, with Bruce Barnbaum, Jack Dykinga, and Jay Dusard. They are some of the great photographers, and raconteurs of our time.
Images from travel and workshops in the southwest. The Navajo areas of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley are the most amazing places I have ever photographed. The stone and the light combine to make incredible photographic opportunities.
Some of these images were made during my own travels and some during a workshop with John Sexton and Ray McSavaney, two of my personal photographic heroes.
These are images made at our favorite Saturday morning destination in Portland, spring through fall. Unlike some food photography, these images are not formally prepared and lighted. They show how the vendors display their fruits and vegetables at the market. They look good enough to eat, and they are.
Since I was a child, I have had a dream of going to Africa to see and photograph the animals.
These images were made during a month long visit to South Africa in March 2003. I traveled with my wife, who was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and educated in South Africa. We traveled through much of the country, from beautiful Cape Town, in the far southwest, to Kruger National Park in the northwest, a journey of over a thousand miles. We visited three game parks: Addo Elephant National Park in south central South Africa, Kruger National Park, one of the major game parks of the world, in the northeast, with over 7,700 square miles, approximately the size of Rhode Island, and Hluhluwe-Omfalozi Park in Kwa-Zulu Natal, where major conservation work has been done with the white rhino. These parks belong to the animals; the humans are locked into rest camps at night. While driving, one is required to stay in one’s vehicle at all times. It was HOT, frequently over 100°F. My wife drove, very slowly, we both observed, and I photographed.