Chris Orwig - Flipside

golden

our neighbors’ golden retriever had puppies and yesterday we went over for a visit… adorable.

sb harbor

ralph clevenger

i captured the image above at ralph’s home in santa barbara.
if you’re not familiar with ralph, he is an inspiring person and amazing photographer.
be sure to check out his work - click here!

shadow

yummy cookie

yesterday our family went to a really fun lynda.com staff party/event.
sophia really liked the lynda.com logo cookies :)

stussy / sb magazine

in this month’s issue of santa barbara magazine there is a feature of shawn stussy. i was excited to see that they used one of my photos to compliment the article.  you can check out a brief version of the article here: http://sbmag.com/2010/08/doubledown/

scott miles

sunrise

rincon

sam

car seats

before starting the car, i looked into the back seat i couldn’t help but marvel at how wonderful, and how big my girls have become.

40 Hours

the gentlemen pictured above is a friend/acquaintance i met at photoshop world last week. he traveled 40 hours… all the way from angola in order to attend the conference – amazing!

thanks kelly!

today i was clearing some photos off my cf card and i came across some great photos my wife kelly took of me and my girls. i am the luckiest man alive.

russell brown

last week while at photoshop world i had the chance to chat with russell brown (senior creative director at adobe). as usual it was inspiring and thought provoking. he’s always pushing the envelope and getting people to have fun and get out of their comfort zone.

douglas and francoise kirkland

douglas kirkland is working on a few new photography courses for lynda.com – they are going to be epic! for one of the segments of the course, i was asked to interview douglas – what an honor! douglas has such a strong and infectious passion for photography. i’ll be sure to let you know when it goes live. above is a picture of douglas and his wife francoise on the set a lynda.com last week.

to see more of douglas’ work click here

jay maisel

i had the chance to chat with jay maisel for a few minutes today. something he said struck a chord, “…you should never take a picture without a trigger. only take pictures when something compels you to move.”

to see more of his work click here

zack arias

zack is a great photographer, teacher and all around cool cat. i had a chance to meet up with zack at photoshop world and was impressed and inspired by his approach to things. one of zack’s goals in life is to, “…comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

check out his work – click here