i just found this news story today. it seems dick scruggs has pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy/attempting to bribe a judge in a hurricane katrina-related lawsuit. it’s amazing to think of what likely happens in these big cases that most of us never see. i photographed dick scruggs in 2004 for time magazine at the [...]

we all know that life in the photo world has been speeding up lately. where we used to wait for labs to develop our film and for fedex to deliver it to the client, now everything happens at T1 speeds. when i first got a modem on my apple IIc in 1985 i had a [...]

my buddy denny is many things, most of which make little to no sense to a normal person. mostly he’s king kukulele, ukulele player extraordinaire. his act is almost more vaudeville than musical, and he’s the only professional ukulele player i know who also manages to be a property owner in southern california. for those [...]

there’s an article in the NY post today about the hearts book! coolest thing, though, is that it’s one of the most emailed articles of the day. you can see the article here – and thanks to dr. rock for the sweet publicity! also, i got a terrific email last night from the mother of [...]

when i last saw patty she had just graduated from high school and was headed off to college. the next few years after that brought a scramble of other things to distract me; trying to make a living, trying to find the book a publisher, maybe even trying to grow up a bit. when the [...]

i met up with tashena this morning at starbucks near the ocean. i’ve been meaning to catch up with her for weeks, as i feel great attachment to her and her family. tashena is micah’s sister, and appears in the hearts book as a 14 year old. amazing to think it’s been that long. the [...]

last year my uncle howard was diagnosed with stage IV lymphoma. he underwent a very aggressive treatment regime and partway through i had taken some pictures of him at a family dinner (below). howard was nice enough to let me take the photos in the midst of his chemo with the condition that we do [...]

so it was pretty exciting this morning when i saw my amazon sales ranking break the 100,000 mark. it usually has been hovering between 300,000 and 400,000, so getting up into five digits was a good sign. then later on it went to 54,200 and now it’s at 32,697! it’s nice that in the internet [...]

the photo blogosphere is a somewhat crowded place these days. if you want to find a lot of pontificating about the pitfalls and excesses of the photo business, you can rest assured there’s someone out there writing about it. or commenting on it. or profiting from it. anyone who has spent any amount of time [...]

every one of you probably has a friend who for years has been telling you stories about some friend of theirs, but you somehow never seem to meet this mysterious friend. well, tommy jordan has been telling me about his friend dave ralicke since i can remember. they were room-mates years ago at UCLA. and [...]