Photoshop Turns 20!
Some days I think I could live without it. Somedays I know and do live without it. But then there are the days that I know I’m going to use it, and I’m going to enjoy the utility it provides. Photoshop is officially 20 years old!
Just think of all the terrain this revolutionary software application [...]
New Weekly Series: Field Lighting
Mondays are now officially dedicated (on this site at least) to a new weekly series I’ve named Field Lighting: Working with the light and the story.
Any regular readers of this blog know that I like to shoot environmental portraits, as well as light them in a way that stresses their story. I’m not an over-the-top [...]
The World Keeps Spinning…New Web site!
Hello All! I’ve been on a much-needed hiatus from the Internet and my blog, but in the meantime, some good things have happened! If you’re a regular reader, you’ll notice the new Web site digs. Thanks to the folks at GraphPaperPress, they offer an easy way to integrate Photoshelter users’ accounts with their WordPress templates, making my [...]
Wind Energy and Lesser Prairie Chickens in Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine
I haven’t visited the blogosphere in a while due to some pretty exciting and unique opportunities, both photography and research-related, but I definitely had to give props to the October issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine. My good friend, Stayton Bonner, and I produced the cover story dealing with the growing wind industry and [...]
New additions to the PowerShots, but no SLR today…
This morning, Canon USA announced the unveiling of several new additions to the PowerShot lineup, including the new flagship G-model, the G11. In my opinion, it’s a little too early to tell how well this new camera will perform, but with the history behind it, I’m sure it will please consumers who feel it will [...]
A little press never hurts!
Without sounding too pretentious, I would like to make some thanks to the Texas Techsan magazine! I have been shooting for them for several years, and their editors, Jean Anne Cantore and Jennifer Ritz are top notch writers and magazine organizers! On top of that, I am proud to call them friends. Jennifer and I [...]
EarthCo Megablock
Warning: this is not a photography post, but it’s pretty cool anyways!
When I was a child, I loved Legos. I didn’t really follow the directions when I got them, rather, I felt more compelled to create something on my own. Fortunately, I do read directions now, but there was something very satisfactory as a little [...]
New Book from Badlands Design and Production – Working Dogs of Texas
I love when I get to announce a new book, and this one will be a blockbuster! Badlands Design and Production, the publishing house that I am a partner with Sylinda Meinzer, is releasing Working Dogs of Texas this Fall, right before the Christmas shopping season. The book, written by avid dog and outdoor writer, [...]
New News – iPhone 3Gs
As many of you know, the iPhone 3Gs will be available soon. This looks like a promising new tool for the photography industry in many ways. I’m not going to go in to too much detail about the specs of the phone, but there are a few that are pretty cool!
The iPhone 3Gs has a [...]
Home Away From Home – Wyman and Jerod’s Bogus Adventure: Junction
Alright! Wyman and I are back at Texas Tech University in Junction, our OTHER place, ha! Each year, Wyman and I come to Junction to lead a 15-day photography workshop that counts as class credit with the university, and each year, we get a totally new batch of eager students who get to see some [...]
Andy Biggs and His Africa
I thought I would drop a note about a treasure of images being offered by Andy Biggs, longtime African wildlife photographer and director of many safaris in the continent for professional and amateur photographers alike. Andy is making available two portfolios of work in special packaging (might I say, some rather classy packaging, including a [...]
Tuesday Night Links
I was very surprised to read in the New York Times about a photographer (how many stories do you really see about photographers?). It was even more surprising to find out it was a photographer that virtually put up the rights to her images as collateral for a couple of loans. It was especially surprising [...]
Up and Running (but not finishing the race by any means)
For the most part, winter is a pretty uneventful season, photographically speaking, in West Texas, especially for a guy that does quite a bit of his location portraiture outside! I’m not bashing West Texas, I’m a huge fan, but I have to work around the common brown of the ground and empty sky (I’m picky, [...]
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy…” – Bobby McFerrin
A short post today. Amid all the talk about our current status in regards to the U.S. economy, I thought I would throw up an image that I took one day while making a trip with Joe back to Lubbock, Texas. This mural, if you can call it that, was painted on the side of [...]
New Life Children’s Home and a very special shoot!
I’m fortunate to see some pretty interesting things and meet some outstanding people as a photographer! I have a great attraction to people and their stories, because each is so unique and deserves telling. The photograph above is of Michelle. Michelle really drove home what I do for a living: help tell a story!
Michelle is [...]
A New Step!
Not much time to blog, so I’ll keep this brief. For those of you that follow the photography industry, you have no doubt noticed trends in photography give way to technology: auto-focus revolutionized pretty much everything, and so did the leap to digital imaging. Within the past two months, the photography industry is moving in [...]
First Announcement!
Alright, new news (that’s why they call it news)! Alright, many of you may know, I am a partner in a design and publishing firm called Badlands Design and Production. With this business, we create, communicate, and market products, as well as pushing ourselves into the book publishing industry.
We’re announcing our first publication, Inspiration Texas [...]
