Spent a cloudy morning with the family at the Oakland Zoo. It was my first time there and I admit to being impressed by the size and layout of the park. The animals seemed to have a lot of room to move. The big cats were all sleeping but my son loved the elephants and [...]

What do you do when you only have a few hours to check out a foreign city you’re unfamiliar with? You “run & gun”, or “shoot & scoot” as a friend of mine is often heard saying. That sums up my three hours in Tokyo. First off we were scrambling to see some of the [...]

Shemya is a small island in the Aleutian archipelago southwest of Alaska. It has a land area of about 6 sq. mi. and is about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage. Population? About one hundred. I got to spend a couple of days feeling quite isolated from the rest of the planet. There are rusty Cold War-era facilities, dramatic [...]

Had some time off during a military trip to Colorado Springs so I dragged my butt out of bed early to shoot the Garden of the Gods Park. Its very close to downtown and definitely worth the trip.  

After years of living in the South Bay, we finally took a walk through Stanford University. Not only is it a beautiful campus for photography, but we were also able to check off an item on my mother-in-law’s Bucket List. Win win!

After years of procrastination, my father and I finally went on a real shoot together. We opted for a central location to his home in the Wine Country and my South Bay apartment, so Mt. Tamalpais seemed the logical choice. The drive to the top was well worth the early wake-up. Windy, but well maintained roads [...]

Pictures from a 2008 trip my family took to Copan, Honduras. Home to ancient Mayan ruins and the Macaw Mountain Nature Reserve.