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I decided to try adding a sailboat to this surf and sunlight photo I made several years ago at Half Moon Bay.

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First edit from yesterday's 6 hour photo session with Vytal Movements Dance Company in my studio in downtown Spokane Washington.

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In the last month I have lost three people who were dear to me. This morning when I found out that Tom had pass I was overwhelmed with the cumulative emotion of the three passings and had to find this image that I made in Hilo this past spring.  It's a visual prayer when words cannot be uttered.

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I will always remember your kindness, the smell of your pipe and the sound of printing presses. Thank you Tom for everything you did for me.

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30 years ago I made a photograph of the ballet dancer Christopher Aponte with a 4x5 film camera. At the time I felt it was a mistake because I had technical malfunctions and only one light source exposed the film and it came out extremely contrasty. That mistake was one of the most defining moments of my career because I felt like it worked in a way that has shaped much of my fine art work. This summer I made this composite image (vertical on right) of botanical images and I found myself drawn towards the shape that started it all. It has become my quest to create imagery that celebrates our connection to all of life, most notably the elements found in the primordial forest.

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I wanted to make a gazebo shot that had drama and impact. With this image I chose to light the couple with a 600 watt second studio light plugged into a portable battery. I placed the light behinc the couple and blasted them from behind. The white draping and the white ceiling reflected enough light back onto the couple to make my exposure! I was very happy with the results. The railing created wonderful shadows that mirrored the lines in the draping above.

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This last weekend I photographed a wedding. One of the challenged I faced internally was the question of how I could fit my signature style into this wedding. I ended up making this hand and ring shot with the same technique I use to make my notan studies
of nature. I am very satisfied with the results.

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I am playing with some room images where I am putting in my artwork to see how it would relate to different spaces. This is an image I made this summer that I call, "Forest Zen" that is comprised of 4 separate images that I composited together. Yesterday while enjoying a wine tasting where a 30x40 of this is being shown my artist friend pointed out the yin and yang of the design which I hadn't consciously thought of but wasn't surprised due to all the study of Taoism and Zen I have been doing the past few years.

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This morning I was making some blog posts when I realized that these two images that were made a week apart really express the same emotion for me.  I am interested in the idea of the light above and the way it reflects up upon as if it is referencing the inner spirit.  I am interested in seeing how I can keep this idea going in other work.

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This image was published in the Inlander this week and it is the start of a new body of work I am going to start working on that is based upon the relationship between dancers and place.