Our Daily Bread

I was asked to shoot Our Daily Bread’s new location here in Santa Barbara, for Food And Home Magazine.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Santa Barbara, California.

Enjoy.

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Jonata and Wine Spectator Magazine

I had a great time getting to know another local wine maker, Matt Dees at Jonata vineyards in Santa Ynez. Wine Spectator hired me to make these images.

I spent the day making portraits, and then was left in the vineyard until sunset to make photos of the vines and Oak Trees. 

Jonata is Chumash for Oak.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Santa Barbara, California.

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Urban Wine Trail

The urban wine trail is a new and refreshing thing here in Santa Barbara.

I was asked to shoot some of the tasting rooms by Santa Barbara’s own Food and Home magazine.

Some of the older parts of town are being re-gentrified by the Santa Barbara County wine industry. 

Even the area know as the

 Funk Zone

 has seen a complete resurgence of weekend population. 

Just a few that I made images at are 

Kunin, 

Grassini, 

Carr 

and Oreana. 

They all have great wines and a wonderful tasting rooms to sip in.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Santa Barbara, California.

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Plough Wine Group, Edible San Luis Obispo

Karrie Crane from Edible San Luis Obispo asked me to photograph the Plough Wine Group. They come from all over the county. They are from Santa Maria to Paso Robles. All good wine country.

Their busy schedule only allowed them to get in front of my camera at different times. Karrie saw my Lone Pine work on my web site and asked if we could do something like that. It was the perfect solution to this group’s dilemma.

It is made up of 5 exposures, one of each person (and the dog, Hank) and then put together using some digital magic. I’m happy with the results. It looks like they were all there at the same time in one capture.

Thanks Karrie for taking the risk and thanks to the Plough Wine Group for trusting me when I was giving them those crazy directions. 

By the way I have tasted some of their wines and they are delicious.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Santa Maria, California.

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Edible San Luis Obispo,Cover

I was honored when Karrie Crane the Editor of Edible San Luis Obispo 

asked me to shoot the cover of her Spring/Early Summer 2013 Edition.

It looks great Karrie, you did a great job with it. Thanks.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Montectio California.

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Giffin & Crane

I have a great client named Giffin and Crane Construction. Bruce Giffin and Geoff Crane are not only truly nice guys, but they are the best in construction. What makes them a great client for me is they ask me, to do “my thing” for them. Every few months I get a call to photograph someone to use in a newsletter they send to clients. 

I get to construct a photograph for them. 

This one of Project Engineer Steve Potter was just that, a construction project. Steve was game for my ideas of making it look like he was able to walk on water. 

What you don’t see in this image is all of the infrastructure we had to create to hold it together. Just like a house, you don’t notice the foundation, the wall studs, or insulation, what you see are the finishes.

This was made of lots of parts. The sky was from one frame, and becasue the clouds were moving the dappled sunlight on the house and lawn came from still another frame. The light used on Steve’s face was rather close to him and had to be removed. And then of course there is the capture of Steve, again it’s own snap. I had to make sure everything fit together. Also, I love to suggest a little humor in my photographs whenever I can and so the umbrella adds just that little bit of question.

I create narrative driven portraits on location. This time, Montectio California.

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Santa Barbara Polo II

I made this image for the Santa Barbara Polo and Racket Club

The agency Media 27 here in Santa Barbara did a great job with my photo.

Nice work by creative director Shukri Farhad.

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Santa Barbara Polo

I made this image for the Santa Barbara Polo and Racket Club

The agency Media 27 here in Santa Barbara did a great job with my photo.

Nice work by creative director Shukri Farhad.

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French Style

I made this photo for Food and Home Magazine for an article about a designer here in town.

 Owner of  Reed’s Flooring on Santa Claus Lane, (Yes that’s really the name of the street) Romain Doussineau is bringing some French style to Santa Barbara.

http://www.food-home.com

http://www.reedfloors.com

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Food and Home Magazine Cover

Hey look what’s on the cover of the new Food and Home Magazine.

 This is Brian the owner of the Santa Barbara Fish Market at 117 Harbor Way, #A  Santa Barbara, CA 93109

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Karrie Crane Edible San Luis Obispo

There’s a new magazine on the central coast. Edible San Luis Obispo, has just published its first issue. I was honored that the publisher/editor Karrie Crane asked me to make her photograph for the Editor’s page.

Good luck Karrie, the rest of the magazine looks great!

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A fellow alum of Brooks Institute and I were recently reacquainted. 

Dan Carter started his career in photography but his love for older cars took over his life. Making photographs of them to begin with, but possessing knowledge about their inner workings “drove” him into that side of the car business. 

Now he owns his own shop called Anvil Motor Sports, here in Santa Barbara and regularly has older, expensive, and valuable collectable cars in his bays. The day I visited him to make his portrait he was working on a Ford Shelby Mustang, vintage 1970.

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Gallery 27 December 6, 2012

Thursday December 6, 2012, I am included in a group show at Gallery 27 in Santa Barbara. It will feature this image I made of Billy Ruiz from cowboyflavor.com based in Santa Ynez, CA.

Billy Ruiz Cowboy Flavor Catering Santa Ynez CA

I have had the honor of photographing Billy twice for two different magazines. 

Food & Home Magazine and American Cowboy Magazine.

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Gallery 27

Gallery 27 at Brooks Institute is has selected this image of mine for an upcoming show.

Opening May 3 - June 15 2012

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395 Revisited, Again

During the time of my Master's thesis project 

I was determined to make something here.

One trip out to Lone Pine I stopped and sat

waiting for someone to show up. 

No one arrived, left, or even wandered by

during the best time while the sky was still aglow. 

Before I packed up my camera to continue on I made this exposure.

For me this gas station has always been a symbol of a trip on 395.

It is usually the moment when I actually roll onto

the pavement of 395 from CA-14. 

As far as I know it is the last Mobil gas station

to still have the Pegasus logo lit each night.

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Red Car Cover

Santa Barbara, CA

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Horse

Equine.

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Cherries

I made this image a long time ago. It was published as a poster and sold all over the world.

Every once in a while I will get a Google alert that somebody, somewhere is trying to sell their framed version on ebay.

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The Secret Life Of Koi

At the main entrance of the Mauna Lani Hotel on the island of Hawaii there is a fantastic collection of Koi fish. Often I will be seen there taking in the kinetic energy of the water made by the fish as they scramble for food tossed in.

I have spent hours there making photographs with different cameras. The one I used here is a Holga camera. By deliberately not advancing the film enough each time I made images overlap. This blending together of exposures created one long strip of film without the typical breaks between frames. 

Once the film was developed I scanned it. Then, I bookended and overlapped two versions of the image. By masking out one side I revealed this strange yet captivating image. 

Kind of a Rorschach test to the max.

What do you see here?

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Still Winter

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

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