Travel Blog

Dallas Winspear Opera House at Night

Here’s my first image from a solid night of shooting Dallas with +Cliff Baise and +Scott Jarvie. Jarvie was in town from shooting +Colby Brown‘s sisters wedding so he came up to Dallas for a few nights to shoot yet another wedding (dude stays busy!). The weather looked pretty ominous on the way there as it was pouring down rain the entire way. So we started off the night and ate at the hands down best burger joint in Dallas, Angry Dog. By the time we were done there the rain had pulled back and left plenty of low hanging fruit in the form of low level, fast moving clouds. We started off at city hall and eventually made our way over to the Dallas Arts District to shoot this incredible building. It’s got a great little reflection pool that was begging to be in the frame.

Australians Accents Can Get You Anywhere

Today’s image was the first view of the incredible Seattle skyline that I ever saw, thanks to +Jacob Lucas‘s Australian accent. Seriously, he got us in to more awesome places that weekend than you would believe. He’ll tell you that it was just because he was nice and wasn’t afraid to ask. But between you and me, it had nothing to do with that.

Life in Manarola, Cinque Terre

Oh how I miss Italy. Here’s another shot that I had previously overlooked while going through some Italy photos the other day. Can you imagine what it would be like to live in one of these homes? Waking up to the Mediterranean Sea right outside your window each morning. Vineyards flanking you from every other direction. The Cinque Terre was by far the most beautiful part of Italy that we visited. It was absolutely enchanting and I would move there in a heart beat. In fact, we were considering it before Kristin got pregnant. I’m still not opposed to the idea in the future so we will see what happens . I think every person reading this should make a point to visit Italy in their lifetime.

Wildflowers on the coast of Riomaggiore at dusk – and the joy of finding previously…

Here’s a shot I found while scrubbing through all the images I took in Italy late last year. The sun had set and the light was beautiful. Just a simple composition with the flowers against the rocky shore below and the purple and pink sunlight reflecting off of it.

A classic Mini on Lake Como in Italy

So I haven’t had a chance yet to congratulate +Cliff Baise on his recent trip to NYC for winning the Snap My Life contest. Largely because of the awesome community here on Google+ and also because Cliff put up a worthy and awesome photo in the contest, he won and got to be the roaming photographer for a car show in New York City! How cool is that!?

So I thought I’d share a car photo in honor of Cliff’s achievement .

The Last Thing Some Will Ever See

It’s really quite amazing/terrifying to think about how incredible attack and scout helicopters have become in recent years. For some poor bad guy somewhere in the world, this helicopter could very well be the last thing he ever sees, so it’s good that it’s such a beautiful instrument of death! I photographed the test flight of this bird for a company last year and haven’t had a chance to share any of the images until now. I’ve always loved this shot and it’s been sitting on my computer for some time now.

Big Sur Sunset With A Fisheye

I was looking through my portfolio the other day and realized something: I only have but a handful of images in there that were shot with my fisheye. I love this lens for sure and I feel like I use it more often. My portfolio is a folder on my computer that is comprised of all my best work, then it’s rated and starred within itself to sort out the absolute best. Of all the 594 images currently in that folder I would guess that about 8-10 of those are fisheye shots and I don’t know why that is.

Back Alley in Venice, Italy

Here’s a quick shot for you all on this beautiful Sunday morning . I grabbed this shot on a little photo walk I took with my wife in Venice Italy at about 5 a.m. one morning. The city was totally empty and parts of it had this kinda eerie feeling to it.