As of now the images on the site have a tighter focus: new images dropped in reflect the work that I love to do. Some recent assignments have been right along that vein and are portfolio worthy though I can’t show the shots till the images appear in a month or two.

Getting ready to send promotional emails out to a selected niche of a thousand photo editors, art buyers and art directors in the commercial and editorial (ie: magazine) worlds.

Here’s my calling card on a few portal sites:

Photoserve

ASMP (find a photographer)

APA (Advertising photographers)

photocrew

Editorial Photographers (find a photographer)

FindLAphotographer

AltPick

Off to an assignment – what it takes:

My favorite model is featured on JettyGirl’s website:

Michael Steele, Chairman of the RNC, could we be related?  Brother from another mother..a very warm and friendly politician I shot today for YAF.

“Rob Raker and I hadn’t seen each other for over a year when the e-mail landed in the inbox from Colorado: he was psyched to get back to his SB roots and back to the ocean and Channel Islands.   The Rake had been in the mountains for well over a decade, filming documentaries from Madagascar to Antarctica…”

So begins a feature story and photo essay that is in this month’s DEEP Magazine from a trip out to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands last August. Clicking the images below will open larger and readable spreads.

“Last year the Rake had been in Nepal climbing ice routes on Lhosar with Erik Weihenmayer.  The trip was timed so that Erik could also catch up on the now 2-year adoption process for a young Nepali boy; a process that began before political upheaval halted adoptions as the Maoist party came to power in Nepal.   After the ice routes were sent, what was expected to be a brief visit bound with red tape was instead bound with joy as the adoption was suddenly cleared and Erik could bring young Arjun back to the states.

The email I received from Rake eventually led to a plan. The idea was a family outing to Santa Cruz Island for days to include my family of four, Raker and Weihenmayer and wife Ellie, daughter Emma (9) and now seven-year-old Arjun. Little Arjun would be introduced to the ocean.

For Weihenmayer this would be a relaxing break from his day job(s): paraglider, skier, adventure racer, paddler, cyclist, author, speaker and mountain climber.

Weihenmayer has climbed Mt. Everest. Last year he finished the last of the Seven Summits in Austral-Asia, climbing to the highest point on each of the seven continents.  Fewer than 100 people on the planet have accomplished this feat; and Weihenmayer is blind.”

In the water with Rochelle at sunset yesterday for a series of paddleboard shots.  Used the Nikon D3 with a 24 lens and a strobe gelled with a 1/2 CTO . The inaugural dunking of the water housing -  which worked pretty well although not as much control as I normally shoot on manual.  So these were preset to aperture priority (I could change the aperture).   We’ve been having beautiful sunrises and sunsets all week.  I was in a 3/2 surf wetsuit while Rochelle was pretty hard-core and opted for the bikini – said she was warm enough though as I was making her paddle hard back and forth, back and forth.

Portraits and images for a new client:

Mitt and Ann Romney (Mitt is a likely Republican front runner in the next Presidential election)

and below them an environmental portrait of activist Hannah Giles and Trigger on the front patio of President Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo.   Two months ago Hannah infamously exposed corruption within the ACORN organization.

Kevin Brown on a winter ascent of “Electric Ladyland”, Washington Column, Yosemite.

Words can’t do justice to the positive impact Kevin Brown has had on the lives of so many;  the man who mentored me up big walls,  the man who taught me to ride waves, the man who selflessly gave from the heart – the man who defines for me the best that a person could ever strive to be.