I recently visited one of my friends on San Juan Islands in northern Washington. Besides being a close friend, Chelsea has also been one of my regular models. She enjoys being photographed, comes up with shoot ideas, has an interesting, hip wardrobe and lives in a beautiful Pacific Northwest location. On this trip, Chelsea also had a friend visiting her from Germany. I was excited that Chelsea’s friend, a […]
This summer I had an opportunity to do a casual photo shoot of my friend, and a beautiful model, Vlada. We picked a park on the outskirts of Berkeley, California on a warm, northern California kinda day. By day, Vlada is a teacher in San Francisco who also runs a social-rights nonprofit organization. She is also a salsa instructor.
I’ve never been on a golf course, so I jumped at a chance to do a photo shoot of a friend playing golf. The setting was perfect – a warm, sunny, windless evening and good, cold Alaskan beer. The golf course was a green oasis in the midst of a brown drought-soaked California’s Central Valley. These and other images from this shoot are available for
Point Reyes, an hour drive north from San Francisco, is a gem of a place. A prominent cape in the Marin County of northern California, it’s also a protected national park. Although only 100 square miles, with trails running along the coast and through the forest, there is a plethora of places to get away from the crowd and explore. There are great places to bike, both along
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These small man-made freshwater ponds are used to raise snails for fish culture. The ponds are full of life – insects buzzing around, aquatic larvae preying or being preyed on, snails slowly making their rounds along the sides. Even fish have accidentally made their way as fry. The ponds are chock-full of plants, shooting tiny flowers above the surface. At sunrise, around 5:45 in the morning, as the sun breaks