i love shooting editorially, but it does have its downsides. aside from the obvious economic problems, you usually only have one day with any given subject. sometimes only fifteen minutes. it doesn’t allow for much time to really get to know the people in front of the camera, and that’s too bad. afterall an interest [...]

i teach a portrait photography class at a college in orange county, california. very often students will neglect to turn in assignments. generally, the excuses are as wild and exotic as saying “uh. . . the printer was broken”, or “i don’t have a car” or simply staring blankly and sort of half-shrugging. none of [...]

on september 15, 2007 my brother got married in carmel, california (more on this later). i was the best man, for once. these are from the rehearsal dinner the night before (my parents, and my sister, danielle.)

i’m happy to say that the final files for the hearts book (My Heart vs. the Real World) are on their way to the press. our official release date is february 1st, 2008, but it seems to already be listed on amazon! hell, i even have a sales rank: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,575,848 in Books [...]

hmm. . . i seem to be having some misalignment issues. . . there are picture overlaps in safari, but not firefox. i can’t seem to figure out why, so in the meantime i suggest using firefox. in other news it almost rained here today. but then didn’t quite. rain would’ve been nice. one thing [...]

i’m relieved to report that i do not have high cholesterol. there was a period of time at the beginning of last summer where i suspect that i did have high cholesterol. i took lipitor for one month, and exercised, and ate lots of fish. my cholesterol dropped 100 points, and i stopped taking the [...]

so we’re gearing up for the next JDate ad shoot now. . . this next one should be fun. i can’t say much about it yet, of course, but it’s promising to be a little more off-kilter, which is always something i like. i get to do some things that i don’t often get to [...]

in the second half of september i managed somehow to drive over 2,300 miles. more than half of that took place in one week when i drove to las vegas (and back) twice. i did one job in las vegas on a wednesday (drove there and back the same day) and then the next day [...]

trying something new. actually, trying something new again. i started this on a different directory a few days ago, then spent the past few days developing carpal tunnel syndrome while preparing the main site to incorporate this blog. a word to the wise: before you start fiddling with filenames and directories you might want to [...]