I just found a portfolio website from a gentleman by the name of Mel Yates. He has some absolutely spectacular portraits of Big Hollywood Stars, and then my personal favorite: guy with the serious cat.
Over the past 24 hours, rumors have been mounting that Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the ‘Victory Chairperson’ of John McCain’s Presidential campaign, will be McCain’s pick for the Vice Presidential slot on his ticket. This is ...
Helen took me to Salish Lodge as a birthday present to me this year (in addition to some beautiful clothes, and the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens). Nice girl ;-) Naturally, we took a few pictures over two days, and I’ve uploaded the first round of them t...
My birthday happened to land on July 4th this year, just as it has for the 25 prior birthdays I have had. As always, I celebrated at someone else’s house party and watched fireworks in the evening. Here are some of the results. The rest are up on ...
It strikes me that anyone capable of this sort of inane stupidity should never have made it into an Ivy League school in the first place: The scene: A play at Princeton’s Berlind Theater needs a line-prompter. A group email seeks volunteers. To mi...
I picked up a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens yesterday, and it is absolutely fantastic! This is really a gorgeous lens: very fast, very sharp, super high quality, and it weighs just over 2 pounds. Simply crazy. I had a very serious conversation about...
Wesley Clark said the other day “‘riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down’ is not ‘a qualification to be president,’” per US News and World Report, and countless other sources. As you can see in this video from TPM Media, the media immedi...
In case any of you care, here are the blogs I’ve found most interesting and relevant to my life over the past few weeks: Bert Stephani - Confessions of a Photographer - Great easy-to-follow discussions on off-camera lighting. Dare Obasanjo - 25...
Let’s face facts: the majority of Americans are not like me. Accordingly to religioustolerance.org, over three quarters of the United States (i.e. about 225 million Americans) are Christian. About 3% follow other faiths. 14% of Americans are, more...
John Montgomery, my old boss from Popfly, gave me some great props on his blog earlier today. God bless the blogger echo chamber: blogging about blogs about me. One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst. For the longest time I ...