Finally! I’ve been wishing I could scan my sheets of negatives into high-quality contact sheets. Sure, with a $1000+ scanner you can do it…but that never seemed worth it. Well, I now have a $170 Epson V600, and “The Light Panel” by Porta-Trace. Lay one on the other, and you can make a fantastic — [...]
On the one hand, I’m enjoying the Olympus E-P2. The image quality is beautiful; it is like using a grainer film than my EOS 5D. Just as one can choose Tri-X over TMAX, I sometimes want to use the E-P2 instead of the 5D to get that grain. However, I’m feeling more and more frustrated [...]
After spending two nights with the young men at the Pine Grove Conservation Camp, a training and rehabilitation institution of the California Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), I received this message from the press liaison: “The main guy who approved your stay at Pine Grove told me that in his 34 years in the agency, [...]
The Station Fire was very, very frustrating. The public information officers (PIOs) were nice, helpful, all-around good people. They let me stay at the fire camp, they geared me up, and then they made sure I wouldn’t get near anything exciting. Especially after I, and an Aussie camera team, managed to shadow a Hotshot crew [...]
I trying to get to the Station Fire, near Los Angeles. My tummy says I should be there, but I know it’s not a great idea to show up completely unannounced. It’s best to stay at fire camp, to be able to work freely with the team at the camp. I don’t want to be [...]
I’ve learned a few lessons about photographing fire by now. This is the second time I’ve followed a big fire — the first was the Basin Complex Fire — and I’m starting to get the hang of the rhythms of wildfire and firefighting. This time, I spent a week on the La Brea Fire in [...]
Frankly, it’s a constant struggle to focus on one thing at a time. I have too many ideas. It’s always been like that, I suppose. I have a list current projects sitting on my desk, followed by a list of great, new ideas, including: Cats Ferry boats Forensic Victim Identification (war/disaster) The Evidence of War [...]