My Work Featured on AgencyScoop.com

Today my work was featured on AgencyScoop.com. Check it out!

I am Featured on Wonderful Machine's Blog

I recently signed on with Wonderful Machine, which is akin to an online portal/PR service for a select group of photographers. This week I am being featured on their blog. Check it out please!

Starting 2009 Without a Rep

I started off 2009 with a big change. I parted ways with Rich Hall who had been my rep of many years. Nothing precipitated this decision, I just felt like the time had come for change. We had a good, long run together and I wish him the best.

Since then I have been quite busy having to do all the promotion, and estimating that he had always handled. But it has been exciting and rewarding putting forward the energy with my producer to design and orchestrate the promos, portfolios and email campaigns...and see the results!

I recently did my first emailer campaign in Europe through Agency Access and had a 30.59% open rate and a 15.67% click-through rate which if you know email numbers are outstanding. My guess is that alot of people in Europe had never heard of me so they clicked through out of curiosity. Let's hope they take advantage of the weak dollar and come across the Pond to work with me.

Alot of people of people ask me if I am looking for a new rep right away. I've sought the counsel of several art buyers, a couple of which advised me I might not need a rep since I am a known entity. While I tend to agree to some extent, the right rep can bring alot to the table and elevate the photographer beyond the sum of their parts. But the wrong rep can act as an anchor or could even keep the photographer from getting some jobs. So the answer is yes I'm looking, but I'm in no hurry.

Some People Are So Lucky

I'm not one to post videos or stuff I find on the web or gets forwarded to me, but this is an exception. This video shows some people and their extreme luck. Let's hope this good luck rubs off on all of us for 2009!

Location Portfolio

My Location Portfolio is currently being featured on Slideshare. Check it out!

Location Portfolio

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Back to Reality

I'm just back from a grueling stock shooting trip to the Caribbean. This time I took my family along to mix a pleasure with business. After 10 days of 80 degree temps and tropical trade winds and days spent in shorts, Hawaiian shirt and flip flops it's hard to come back to reality in California. But hey, at least we got some much needed rain while I was gone!.

Here's an out-take from a stunningly beautiful beach in the Dominican Republic.

Here we are in Nassau, Bahamas.

Storm clouds at sunset in St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.

A perfect sunset off Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Forest Re-Opens!!

After a year of being closed due to the devastating Santiago Fire in October 2007, the Trabuco District of the Cleveland National Forest is finally open. The official opening day was November 9th. Local mountain bikers celebrated and reclaimed the route with a morning and an afternoon ride.

My wife Kristine lead the morning ride with alot of Trail Angels present. They paused for a group photo at Cooks Corner before heading off on the ride.

The morning group posted a new trail register for trail users to write in at the Luge flagpole. I put a couple pictures in the front from just days after the fire was put out showing the charred destruction of the forest.


Kristine wrote down a fitting inspirational saying from John Muir.


Here is Kristine coming down the Luge, a tight, twisty gem of a singletrack. Can you tell she's having fun?


Then later that afternoon the big boys rode and placed a new American flag at the top of the Luge.


Here is a Warriors Society member enjoying the new and improved trail.


Re-opening the forest has made many hiker, bikers and equestrians very happy! Now if we could just get some rain!