Tag Archive: Photography Life

Which Way from Stage 4?

Due to my unplanned photo editing downtime, I did some catching up on the backlog that has built up in my feed reader. Thanks to Paul Butzi, I found the wonderful article five stages of development by Gordon McGregor.  What jumped out at me was the journey casually mentioned in stage 4: <img src=”http://www.focalpower.com/media/2/2-478969ed-24c-240.png” mce_src=”http://www.focalpower.com/media/2/2-478969ed-24c-240.png”> [...]

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Security Guard Run In

If you take pictures, eventually it’ll happen. A run in with the law…or the rent-a-law-enforcer. Today I was shooting some head shots for another startup CEO in San Francisco at Levi Plaza. Levi Plaza is a set of office buildings that have the offices for Levi Strauss and Company. It also happens to be where [...]

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1000 Words Never Captured

Recently I came across a great new blog called The Photographs Not Taken. (truth be told, I spent over an hour on it today…) The concept is simple: have a photographer explain in words a photograph that they did not take. The site was launched just at the turn of the new year and there [...]

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Chasing The Image

provided by FocalPower I recently came across the above quote from Sam Abell (quote might not display in some feed readers) that triggered a flashback for me. Thinking back, this moment can be considered the start of my photography interests. I was probably about 12 or 14 years old. My parents and I were driving [...]

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Landing at DIA

Tonight I was flying into DIA (Denver International Airport). We were landing about an hour before sunset (about 4:30pm local time, I believe). So the sun was still shining over the Rocky Mountains and creating nice long shadows across the snowy ground. First off, I was amazed that there was still snow on the ground. [...]

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Mind Your Surroundings: Ice Squared

We have all heard horror stories of photographer’s who didn’t mind their surroundings. Typically these stories occur while taking photos on the shore and include the tide coming in and wet camera gear. Over the past month, I have had two separate incidents of not minding my surroundings that I wanted to share. They both [...]

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