The journey of a photographer

Maria in the Desert

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:34:10 -0700

March 13, 2013 Maria Sharapova at Indian Wells BNP Paribas and a year has gone by since I last went to the tennis tournament. If there are no celebrities to shoot then the only thing to do is try and get a great tennis shot but thats so hard with so many good photographers covering the event. I always wait until the sun starts to spread shadows across the court, about 4.30 pm on Stadium court, for the next 15 minutes there can be a bit of magic, problem is people sitting around you get pissed off with the constant clicking of your shutter, not to mention if you stand security tells yo to move out. The photographers who know this position still gather and shoot, sometimes its magic, other times you just pissed of a load of people for nothing.

To many exciting skies ?

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:32:21 -0800

Sean & Patty Roche left Woodland Hills for upstate New York in 2004, when they come back to visit, crowds gather. Someone whispered in my ear to take a picture, I can never do anything by half, so tripod, Nikon D 700, one flash released remotely, 3 second exposure for the sky and flash for the people, everyone had fun, all where pleased.

1 year later

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:31:27 -0700

Matt & Jillian got married in Las Vegas October 22 2011, the photographer at the time did a less than perfect job. Matt Symons is my cousin from Weston Super Mare, Somerset, England, he came to America in 2007 and met Jillian in 2010, Jillian is from Buffalo. 2012 I photographed them at Point Dume, Malibu

Sunset Hollywood Beach

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:09:21 -0700

Sitting outside the Rudder Room enjoying a Martini with Petronela at the end of a day and two fishermen stroll back from a days fishing across the beach, to good an opportunity to miss for my Nikon 7100, manual 1/250 @ f 8. The Rudder Room at Hollywood Beach, Oxnard, California is one of the very few bars actually on the sand in California. Does anyone else know of another one ? Just sand outside the door, amazing

RamJam

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:00:42 -0700

Some are calling it the "Rampture," others "Ramp Jam." But there's no disagreement that Los Angeles' next big freeway shutdown will be a long and serious headache. Saturday drivers in west Los Angeles will be the first to feel the effects of the project, in which eight ramps connecting Wilshire Boulevard and Interstate 405 -- one of the nation's busiest streets and one of its busiest freeways -- will be demolished and rebuilt.The major shutdown is the next phase of the Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project and one of several this summer that could make for an especially rough season for Los Angeles area travelers, commuters and tourists."Ramp Jam" is considerably smaller in size than last summer's so-called "Carmageddon," which saw the shutdown of the entire 405 while part of a bridge was torn down. But while the "Carmageddon" lasted just a weekend, this one will take up to a year, and its long-term effects are bound to be far greater.