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Archive for March, 2009
Bombay Beach | Salton Sea | Stuck In The Mud
While making pictures at Bombay Beach, on the shores of the Salton Sea, my Honda Element was nearly lost to the mud.
Salton Sea Photographs | Abandoned Naval Base | Bombay Beach
Another full day of photographing the weird and wonderful environs of the Salton Sea. This portfolio of images is mostly from Bombay Beach and the abandoned Naval Auxiliary Air Station.
25 Things You May Or May Not Know About Doug
I don’t think I’ve ever posted a random list of facts about me on my blog, even though everyone else seems to have, and I almost always enjoy reading stuff like that if it’s a blog I follow. So whether you consider it the height of narcissistic solipsism, or a fun ice-breaking mini-autobiography, here [...]
Max Smiles!
Our little baby boy has been working on getting a smile out for a couple weeks now, and today he managed to pull off his first, bona-fide, I’m happy and not just pooping smile. It just so happens that we had the camera rolling at that moment – I had been thinking lately that I [...]
Vegas Boneyard Contest Winner
Congrats to Jenny Smith of Alders Photography in L.A., who is the winner of a photo contest we sponsored back in February – Christpher Bartelski hosted the shoot during this year’s WPPI convention, at the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas, and lots of [b] schoolers showed up to produce some killer images. You can check [...]
JVS Workshops This April
Joseph Victor Stefanchik and his wife Anne are hosting two workshops this April, which will be the last chance you’ll have for a while to learn from them. If you want to learn practical, on-location lighting, JVS is a great guy to see. He’s also a helluva photographer, so we’re happy to pass along the [...]
Salton Sea Photos | Desert Shores | Salton City
More photography of the Salton Sea and its strange surrounding communities. Pictures from Bombay Beach and Desert Shores.
Totally Rad Recipe Contest
We want to see your raddest images. Your eye-popping, jaw-dropping photo magic. That kind of stuff. We want to see before and after shots that show off the Totally Rad Actions. Show us how you’ve transformed your photos, and tell us how you did it. All genres and styles of photography are welcome and encouraged.
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Jon Stewart At His Best
The Daily Show has been a bastion of sanity for me during the last half decade or so, and I was worried about what would happen to the show after Bush left office. After all, it has a definite liberal slant, which I like, but with our team in the driver’s seat, I was left [...]
Seeking Closure
The Salton Sea has held a place in my imagination since the first time I laid eyes on its derelict buildings and abandoned shacks lying knee-deep in salt and muck. I figure it’s about ten years ago that I first went out there, on the recommendation of Tim Douchette. Tim was a bartender at Wolfgang [...]
Inspiration and LOLz
I just had to pass this link along to one of my favorite websites. Check out pictureisunrelated.com for some of the strangest photos you’ll ever set eyes on. It’s simultaneously entertaining, and mind candy for getting your brain into a place where you’ll let weird things happen in your images. Though most [...]
New Blog Format (Again!)
So, for reasons unbeknownst to me, my blog decided to stop working this morning. I was kinda over the blougbloug thing, so I just said screw it, let’s start from scratch. Updated to the latest version of Wordpress, which is pretty neat, and installed a new theme called f8, which is very different [...]
Room With A View
Sorta got lost retouching this shot, and now it’s noon. This shot didn’t work out 100% the way I wanted, but I learned a few things from the process. The moral of the story is, if you’re shooting something stationary, and you’re lighting it, shoot several shots with different combinations of the lights firing. It [...]
Chenin and Max
Shot my amazing wife and beautiful little boy this afternoon. Just a quick portrait of a mother and her child while we still have this amazing weather. Kinda a hack retouch job, but I have an early morning tomorrow… I’ll tweak it some more later I suppose.
Ten Years Ago
I got a wild whim to go poring through old negatives a couple days ago, and came across some shots from college. Took me back to the days when photography was fucking magic, before I was all jaded… where every time you picked up a camera it was just awesome to press the button, and [...]