In The News

  Black Friday approaches!  Time to start working on that Christmas shopping!  Peachpit, the publisher of my adventure sports book, is having an amazing sale.  Check out Peachpit offers here. My book, Adventure Sports Photography; Creating Dramatic Images in Wild Places, is also on sale.  I cover lots of topics from composition and workflow to Read More

It about time to start shopping for the holidays, and one item I know many photographers might enjoy is a new Singh-Ray filter.  My filters include  polarizers, 10 and 15 stop NDs (incredible effects with clouds and water!), split NDs and the IR filter.  Check out Singh-Ray for all the details. If anyone is already Read More

If you haven’t heard, Adobe knocked down the subscription price for Photoshop CC, and added LR5 into the mix.  Starting this week for a limited time, those who have owned Photoshop since CS3 and later are eligible for a discounted monthly subscription of $9.99 for both Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5.  Any future updates and Read More

One thing that has defined my career has been experimenting with light. And honestly, a lot of times these experiments don’t work so great. Flashes break, the light looks wrong, models get tired.  But every once in awhile something looks good, and it might be one of my better images for the year.  When I Read More

Recently I was interviewed by Digital DSLR Photography Magazine, the UK’s largest photo magazine, on my lighting technique.  Always humbling when someone calls wanting to ask me about my lighting technique, I feel like it will always be a work in progress!  Great to see my images in print in Europe, look forward to doing Read More

If you have opened a photo magazine recently, you might have seen this ad that Lastolite is running.  It features an image of Tango dancers I shot in Buenos Aires using a Lastolite Ezybox.  I use Ezyboxes a lot, they pop open and are ready to use in seconds. But most importantly, they produce very Read More

I read Photo District News cover to cover each  month, every issue is loaded with stories aimed at the professional photographer.  It was great to see my lighting technique featured in a recent issue.  The magazine focused on my ‘vertical studio’, a way I rig and elevate my lights to photograph rock climbers. Another publication Read More

Okay, I have seen my family aka ‘models’ on about everything through the years as a photographer.  My wife and son have been on magazine covers, in books, on brochures, hangtags, instore displays, mouse pads, bill boards…when you are shooting for stock, your images show up a lot of places.  Yesterday I was driving through Read More

A good friend of mine, Stacy Pearsall, has just finished her book, SHOOTER, and this is one everyone should check out.  Stacy spent many years as a combat photographer in the army serving in Iraq and other areas, capturing sobering images of this war.   She was wounded twice, and her story shows in detail Read More

If you are a Photo District News reader, take a look at the current issue (‘DIY’ issue) on newstands now.  PDN and Nikon did a two page spread of my work in an advertorial on my ski and winter photography.  I have been a die hard Nikon shooter from the beginning, and I can honestly Read More