insight

06Feb10

As far as I’m concerned, a photographer is a medium through which images are channeled, and that’s the important thing to understand. Photographers themselves are many different kinds of people…that’s interesting in and of its own right, but it’s not the important thing and it’s certainly not the message. The important thing is that we are the first link between the outside world and reality, in the chain of events that is known as journalism.

There’s, I think, an innate belief in communication that motivates any photographer. We are not the ones in front of the camera, we’re behind the camera. We’re not performers, we are not athletes, or actors, or dancers–the way we move our bodies is not our message. We are invisible.

-James Nachtwey, from the documentary, War Photographer

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pushkar, india

young monk

31Jan10

As I am going through photos for an upcoming project, I came across this image from Bodhgaya, India. Bodhgaya is of supreme importance to Buddhist pilgrims and this young boy is one of the numerous monks to visit the Mahabodhit Temple–where Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) attained enlightenment.

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blues in the emerald city

25Jan10

Went out for an early morning shoot with my buddy Daniel in Seattle on Friday. We powered up with some doughnuts and coffee and cruised about…Daniel was off looking for mountains and I got stuck, as I sometimes do, takin’ snaps of the Seattle Public Library and thereabouts.

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whistler, b.c.

15Dec09

Whistler is so cool and the weather was brilliant during the first weekend in December. One of the highlights of the trip was snowboarding with my family and also taking a trip to the top of Whistler to see the iconic 2010 Olympic Inukshuk statue. Man the wind was rippin’ up there. Riding the Peak to Peak Gondola was pretty sick too. It’s nearly two miles long and glides as high as 1427 feet above the valley. And yeah, I looked down.

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monoliths

02Dec09

Some snaps from Houston where we spent Thanksgiving this year. Tomorrow we are off to Whistler to celebrate our son’s birthday. Snow-surfin’ in Whistler for the weekend…feels more like my birthday.

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