Black Friday. Oh Black Friday. On that bi-polar day in which hundreds of millions are nonsensically encouraged to brutally duke it out for deals just mere minutes after expressing gratitude for what we already have, we decided to get as far away from the madness as we could…as far as our gas tank would take us…to the middle of the Mojave Desert!
The family decided we’d spend our Thanksgiving weekend in Palm Desert, just outside Palm Springs, and at the encouragement of REI’s OptOutside campaign, I was somehow able to convince the entire family to spend Black Friday in Joshua Tree National Park. This brought about two surprises – one, it didn’t take too much arm-twisting, and two, Joshua Tree was completely packed – an absolutely beautiful thing to see on a day in which it’s borderline treason not to trample your neighbor for 50 bucks off an HDTV.
The weather was perfect, the company was great, and the surroundings were spectacular. Here are a few images from our Thanksgiving weekend in the desert.
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So last week was a bizarre week. I got a call last Saturday to see if I wanted to accompany a pair of journalists from Time Magazine’s The Drive website as their videographer in a new 2016 Camaro on a road trip from Portland to San Francisco for their Find New Roads campaign. The thing is, we had 36 hours to cover 800 miles.
Now, on the one hand, this was insanely exciting as an experience. Not to mention, that Camaro handles quite well in all the conditions we had it in, including at least 200 miles of nausea inducing twists and turns and curves. This is great fun for those in the front seats, especially the driver, but for me in the back seat…eh…I’ve never felt like puking from a car drive before this one.
And it happened 3 times.
However, I attribute that to the driver, not the car. He was certainly testing the limits of that beast, and the lack of ‘oh shit’ handles had my ‘oh shits’ unleashed more times than even I felt comfortable with, but judging by the fact that I’m still alive, he knew what he was doing, that’s for sure.
Now, on the other hand, as a photographer, this was pure and utter torture. We drove through the Redwood National and State Parks (NPS), the Avenue of Giants, Oregon’s insanely gorgeous countryside, the Pacific Coast Highway from Eureka and Humboldt and Mendocino through Fort Bragg, all the way down the coast to San Francisco. It was all insanely gorgeous country, arguably some of the most incredible in the world. But it was literally like being in heaven and then being kidnapped back to purgatory in a blur – a serious tease that would give any of Portland’s legendary strip clubs a run for their money – from golden fall colored vineyards to smoky Oregonian mountains to fall-colored tree-canopied one lane country roads and movie quality s-curves and riverside valleys laden with giant redwoods and legendary pines, to northern California’s pristine lost coast.
Just about ALL of this has been on my bucket list for a long long long long long time, so I was happy that I’d finally get to do it, HOWEVER, we only got to stop maybe 4 or 5 times, mostly for pee breaks, for a total of about 30-45 minutes through all this, so never got to set up for a single shot. Not one.
At all.
In the most beautiful spots of Oregon and California.
I, along with my cameras, were whimpering loudly and considerably.
Anyhow, save for some GoPro footage, the video portions were all shot on Samsung NX1 and Samsung NX500, both of which handled wonderfully under all the circumstances.
And here’s a video of my version of what happened:
As far as stills, figured roll with the punches (and the hairpin twists and turns) and went with the mobile phone for the mobile pictures. Here is my 36 hour trip, from Portland to San Francisco, by Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and edited in Snapseed. It starts with my flight leaving Los Angeles to Portland, and ends with return flight back to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
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If I had to map out a perfect photography-centric week, it would not have turned out as well as the week that I just finished. It was overwhelming, encouraging, exciting, inspiring, nerve-racking and glorious all at the same time. I’m not sure how I’ll convey it here, but I’ll give it my best shot.
In a nutshell, as many of you may already know, I somehow fell into the good fortune of being a Samsung Camera Imagelogger, essentially a brand ambassador for Samsung cameras. Well, last week, Amazon’s DPReview.com, the comprehensive gear review site, hosted their first PIX event, an “Interactive Photography Expo & Conference” in Seattle, and Samsung asked me to be amongst one of the several Imageloggers to give a presentation there. While the ‘not-used-to-public-speaking’ part of me put a knot of nerves in my stomach, the ‘oh-my-god-this-is-an-amazing-opportunity-hell-yes’ part of me easily won out.
PIX2015 Samsung Camera Imagelogger Meeting (Photo by Rinzi Ruiz)
We arrived on Monday and got to meet many of the faces that until now, I’ve really only known through online avatars. Some of them I’ve had a chance to meet before, but some of them, this marked our first time face to face, and I was crazy humbled to be amongst this company. Along with the wonderful Samsung PR and technical team that has kept us oh-so-happy with incredibly innovative new product after product, I found myself surrounded by inspiring photographers from all walks of life and subjects, including The Candid Frame‘s host and creator Ibarionex Perello, street photography extraordinaire “Street Zen’s” Rinzi Ruiz, Reuters & Getty news photographer Jonathan Alcorn, insane landscape and astrophotographer Matt Kumasaka, prolific celebrity photographer Brian Ach, world’s greatest kid photographer Laura Winslow, and social change advocate and photographer C.C. Chapman. We had dinner at the waterfront Aqua, where we snapped some sunset pictures, and wined and dined the rest of the night away.
The next day was the first day of the PIX conference, and it was filled with one must-see presentation after another. It was crazy. It started off with Reuters snapper Jonathan Alcorn’s presentation “The Evolution of News Photography,” and ended with Cristina Mittermeir’s tear-jerking keynote presentation, “Waters Edge.” In between, we had everything from NASA photographer Robert Hurt’s “Revealing a Hidden Universe,” to Instagram star Matthew Kumasaka’s “Taking Instagram to the Next Level,” street photographer extraordinaire Rinzi Ruiz explaining “How To Use The Sun As A Single Source of Light,” to Joe McNally’s “How to Get the Right Lighting When Shooting Any Group of People.” I even found myself sitting on a panel with the incredibly inspiring International League of Conservation Photographers founder Cristina Mittermeier and one of a kind NASA’s photographer Robert Hurt entitled “Photography and the Environment.” How and why!?? Complete fluke…but I sure as hell wasn’t going to tell anyone that! YOLO!
One of the highlights, at least for me, was getting explore and experience Project Beyond and Samsung’s VR Gear virtual reality headset. It’s hard not to imagine the hold that Virtual Reality (VR) is going to have on the public in the next couple of years, especially as Fortune estimates it to be a $150 billion industry by 2020, so to be able to experience what we’re in store for was quite mind-blowing. Once you experience it, you can’t help but begin to ruminate on all of it’s incredible potential, from education, to medical help in the field, to news reporting, to real estate tours, to quick virtual escapes from our everyday reality, to mental health and PTSD treatments, to trainings. I can’t think of a single aspect of society that can’t find a way to benefit from this technology. Sure, there may be some dark uses, but, with the inherent good in people, as more and more of the world’s population gets connected, I feel that will far outweigh the negatives as the younger more empathetic generations begin to get their hands on and develop this technology.
That evening, we had the DPReview.com party and Awards show, in which the Samsung team was incredibly humbled and excited to receive 3 of the coveted awards:
So if you’re looking for a new camera and haven’t checked out those NX systems …can’t think of any reasons not to anymore…yes, accept the reality, Samsung is now a formidable contender in the camera market!
I got to close out the day by leading a photowalk with fellow Samsung Imagelogger Laura Winslow. We had a group of about 8 or 9 walkers and led them through some creative techniques to get unique vacation photos in the grounds surrounding the Space Needle. After the conference was over, a group of us headed out for a final supper, and then as things began to wind down, the first rain of our 3 days in Seattle began to fall. A couple of us, Rinzi Ruiz and Jonathan Alcorn, felt it was only appropriate to bust out an impromptu photo session in the wet Washington streets. Figured what better way to end a photography conference than to take a bunch of pictures?
I feel so absolutely grateful to have been a part of this thing and cannot give enough respect to the DPReview.com crew that made it happen, made us all feel so welcome and comfortable, and who’s hard work and effort helped guide us through 3 wonderful days of photography psychotica. There’s nothing like finding yourself in the fortunate opportunity to rub elbows with and completely geek out about photography with some of the top and most inspiring names in the industry, many of whom are part of the very reason I got into this to begin with. So thank you Samsung! Thank you DPReview! Thank you PIX! Thank you Seattle!
You can now catch all the speeches and presentations, not only from the Samsung Imageloggers I mentioned above, ALL of which just nailed it up there, but also indulge in presentations from people like “THE” Joe McNally, ‘The Godfather of Photography’ Rick Sammon, Aaron Huey, Benjamin Van Wong, and so SO many more. Just click on this link to check out the list.
lost in the fog somewhere between seattle and portland. samsung nx1 | 60mm | f3.5 | 1/500s | iso160
After the conference was done, I wasn’t through with the Pacific Northwest. I decided to take the Amtrak down to Portland for a couple of meetings and to visit some friends. I got into town around 2pm, picked up a rental car, and headed right over the river to the offices of new photography startup PICR. I first heard of them through an online teaser that said something along the lines of “90% of Photographers Are Underpaid” and I was immediately curious, so when I did some research and found out they were based in Portland area, I contacted them to see if I could stop by. Andrea, their copywriter and editor responded enthusiastically and invited me in. They were extremely accommodating, showed me around, and gave me a breakdown and quick demo of the platform and their plans. Essentially, if you’re a photographer, they’re an online platform that will do all the marketing and advertising for you, connecting you with clients looking for your type of work. Kind of like an Airbnb for photography in a way. I’ve seen a few models like this, but this one seemed like the most stable and viable solution. If you’re a photographer and want to give ’em a shot, click here to sign up. Can’t hurt right?
After meeting with PICR, I headed to my host’s home. If you follow along with this blog, you may remember Wendy Mitchell, the Director of Stewardship at the World Forestry Center who gave me a tour of Portland’s famous Japanese Gardens over the summer. We’ve kept in close contact regarding possibly working with the World Forestry Center, so she invited me to stay with her and her wonderful husband. That evening we had dinner with their strategic communications consultant to discuss an event they’re hosting on December 9, the “United Nations Climate Change Report,” a dinner and ceremony hosted by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Steven Running, the Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and the Pinchot Institute and will be attended by almost 50 high-level names in the environmental, climate change, and conservation space, on a date that coincides with the World Climate Change Conference in Paris. If you’re in the Pacific Northwest, be there!
Over the next couple of days, I had a couple more meet and greets set up. The first was with Sockeye Creative, the top creative production house in the Portland area. They’re responsible for several marketing and advertising campaigns for clients such as Adidas, The Nature Conservancy, Keen, Travel Portland and many more. After that, I met with a friend and colleague I hadn’t seen in a while, Matt Hanrahan of KingSize-USA, about some possible collaborations as well. I took the last few hours of light I had left in the Pacific Northwest to grab a few shots of the leaves as they began to turn for the fall, which I’ve already shared in the previous post, but here they are again in a small slideshow. If you haven’t guessed by now…yeah, I’m pretty smitten with the Pacific Northwest…kind of exploring the idea of making a go of it up there…
So all in all, that last week was an extremely exciting, enjoyable, and productive week on so many fronts, the results of which, I have a feeling, will extend well into the next year. Meeting so many people and hatching ideas in common interest areas is always an exciting prospect, and the idea of bringing many of these ideas into fruition have me incredibly invigorated for the months and year to come.
I must say, this photography journey over the past several years has been an absolute joy. You never know where life is going to take you and what the cosmos decide to hand you, but it has become more and more apparent that if you’re open to it, and you choose to embrace that unknown, by definition, its basically guaranteed to surprise you in ways that you never could have imagined. This past week was filled with several of those surprises, all of which have me feeling extremely blessed and thankful.
Below is a gallery of images shot over the course of that week. You’ll see some from Seattle, some from the PIX2015 conference, and some from the Portland leg of the trip. Click on any one and that’ll open up a lightbox where you can scroll through them.
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I recently spent an incredible week in the Pacific Northwest, the reasons of which will come in a more detailed post next week, but while I was up there, I couldn’t help but capture a few scenes of the foliage beginning to turn. Coming from Southern California, it’s always a treat to be able to capture some fall colors, and just wanted to share those with you here as a bit of a peaceful meditation. Best viewed if you click on one, a lightbox will open. I recommend scrolling slowly through them – at least 15 seconds on each. Hope you enjoy.
Ok, so this is a bit strange, as I’m not usually the one with the lens pointed at me, but when Samsung asked if I’d like to speak at DPReview and Amazon‘s inaugural PIX2015, a live-streamed photography conference, expo, and interactive photography playground, I couldn’t say no! It takes place in Seattle at the Seattle Center, home of the Space Needle, and I’ll be there on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6 and 7.
On Tuesday, I’m proud to be participating in a panel entitled “Photography and the Environment” at 12:15pm. On Wednesday, I’ll be presenting a talk “What Photography Did For Me: Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone To Focus On The Moment.” That one will take place at 1:15pm. Additionally, I’ll be co-leading a photowalk with Laura Winslow entitled “Family Photography In Fun Places” on Wednesday at 4:30pm. The cool thing is, even if you’re not there in person, everything will be live streamed right on their site, www.PIX2015.com. Isn’t the future neato?
And believe you me, there are so many reasons to be at this thing or to log on and tune in. Along with a cadre of my ridiculously talented fellow Samsung Camera Imageloggers, including Jonathan Alcorn, Ibarionex Perello, Rinzi Ruiz, CC Chapman, Laura Winslow, Matthew Kumasaka, and closing speaker Brian Ach, be prepared to be schooled by industry powerhouses such as National Geographic’s Joe McNally, The Giving Lens and insanely talented adventure photographer Colby Brown, The Godfather of Photography Rick Sammon, Marine Biologist and Photographer Cristina Mittermeier, and hyperrealism madman Benjamin Van Wong.
Also, if you come on the morning of Wednesday, October 7th, with an old DSLR of yours, we’ll give you a brand new Samsung NX500 for free. Yup. It’s Ditch The DSLR day at PIX2015. Many of the pictures you’ve been seeing me post here and on my social channels the past couple of months have come from that sexy 4K shooting, 28 Megapixel mini-beast!
How I find myself amongst this bunch I’ll never know, and I’ll never understand. It’s a crazy fluke folks, and a heck of an oversight, but hey, I won’t tell anyone if you don’t!!
For more information about the thing, here’s the official page: www.PIX2015.com
If you’ve followed me or know anything about me for any amount of time, you know that my heart, head, soul, and passions lie in the outdoors and our natural world. So when car maker Subaru reached out to me regarding using one of my images for a joint campaign they were launching with the National Park Service to clean up the National Parks, you can imagine how my fast my mind was racing to process this information.
I short-circuited.
No joke.
For a few minutes as I tried to explain my excitement to my friend, my thoughts and words came out in a series of jumbled R2D2-ish blips and bleeps and eventually a vocal mind-fart meltdown.
But I quickly gathered myself. After all, we’re all professionals here!
As I looked deeper into the campaign and the initiative they were launching, I couldn’t think of a single thing that I’d more like to have my work aligned with than a cause like this.
Apparently Subaru has gone all-in on protecting our environment, and this couldn’t make me happier. At a time when carbon emissions as a whole and lower emissions vehicles have popped into the mainstream vein, the carmaker has become the country’s first zero-landfill automaker, which basically means that they reuse and recycle 100% of their waste from the production of their vehicles. Think about that for a second…that’s AMAZING!!! So for them to team up with the National Park Service and the National Parks Conservation Association in the Zero-Landfill initiative and dedicate themselves to removing all trash from our National treasures makes my heart sing.
Our natural world, coupled with photography, has literally been a soul-and-sanity-saving element in my life, which is better expressed in a very personal post I recently published on Ello, and there’s no place I feel more comfortable and in tune with myself than our open and wild spaces. It’s an indescribable feeling that puts everything in perspective, so I could not think of a cause or effort that is more closely aligned with the things I hold most dear – our environment, our National Parks and open spaces, the absolute necessity of their vitality and how closely that’s all related to our very own future and well-being as a species.
For more information, here’s a trailer for the documentary regarding what Subaru and the National Park Service are doing, and to learn more (and see my image in action), log onto www.Subaru.com/Environment.
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So that was a super fun evening! The one, the only Trey Ratcliff from www.StuckInCustoms.com and TheArcanum.com fame made his Los Angeles stop of his TreyUSA photowalk tour across the U.S. last weekend. There were at least 300 photographers crawling the Santa Monica beach and pier area, all of us learning, laughing, and snapping away.
The event even proved to be a night of firsts for me – not only was it my first ever photowalk but it was also the first time I finally got to meet my Arcanum master Robin Griggs Wood in the flesh, which was a very special thing for me. I also ran into Ibarionex Perello from The Candid Frame, in my opinion the best photography podcast around. Apparently the legendary Karen Hutton was amongst the chaos of the masses, but somehow I missed her!
This was also a big deal for me for Trey was one of the first photographers that I began following heavily on social media when Google+ first hit the scene about 3 or 4 years ago. His path and story have been incredibly inspiring and has helped open worlds to me that I never even knew existed. So to be able to meet, hear, learn from, and shoot with the man himself was one of those highlight moments in my continuing photographic journey. Thanks so much Trey for setting the thing up and hope to see you again soon.
Below is a gallery of some of my favorite shots from the event, all shot on a Samsung NX1 with a combination of the 16-50 S lens and the 50-150 S lens with the exception of the group image, which was shot by award winning wildlife and aerial photographer Laurie Rubin. Click on any of them and it’ll open up a lightbox slideshow.
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Last weekend, I was lucky enough to have the Portland Japanese Garden’s former Director of Development Wendy Mitchell, who is now the current Director of Stewardship at the World Forestry Center, serve as my personal guide for a morning at the Garden and I wanted to share some of that experience, so this is a straightforward one.
Not many words.
A series of images.
A photo essay if you will.
Click through to enjoy a Saturday morning at the Portland Japanese Garden.
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As I mentioned in the previous post, I just got back from a few weeks in Maine. The main purpose of the trip was to work on a video for Camp Skylemar, one of the most beautiful, efficiently run sleep away summer camps in the country. I’ll post much more about this insanely incredible experience once we’re done with the video in a few weeks, but this post is a quick focus on the 5 days after we were done. Since I had never been to Maine before, I tacked on some extra time at the end of the job to explore the State for a few days.
I had reservations at an inn just outside Acadia National Park, about a 3 hour drive from Portland, Maine, and the idea was to immediately drive up the coast to fire a few shots of lighthouses and coastlines. While circumstances prevented me from driving up the first night, this offered me the opportunity to explore the “most photographed lighthouse in the world,” the Portland Head Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, just outside downtown Portland. I entered Fort Williams Park, the property upon which the lighthouse stands, just as the fog was rolling in and the sun began to make its descent. Unfortunately, they kicked everyone out of the park before the proper sunset, but I was still able to set up the tripod and capture a few shots of the lighthouse as the beam cut through the increasingly dense fog. The header to this post is that image, which is actually two exposures. I took one at 1/80s (samsung nx1 | 16mm | f2.2 | 1/80s | iso500), fast enough to freeze the light beam, and then another at 6 full seconds (samsung nx1 | 16mm | f22 | 6s | iso500} in order to capture a smooth milky water.
The next morning, I grabbed a cup of coffee and got on the road. Acadia National Park, here I come. While it added an extra couple of hours to the drive, I opted to take the Highway 1, which tended to stay close to shore, rather than the 95, which would have had me on a highway through the center of the state. Well worth it. I was able to roll through towns like Rockland and Camden, stopping along the way to appreciate the classic New England architecture, feel, ice cream (yeah, I said it), and vibes of these classic New England towns. Not to mention my second lighthouse of the trip, Owls Head, just outside of Rockport.
I ended up pulling into Trenton, the town just at the tip of Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park, where my room was, around 6pm. I checked in and had just enough time to try to capture my first sunset in Maine. When I realized that I was within striking distance of Bass Harbor, just 20 minutes away, I knew that’s where it had to be. I picked up a delicious pesto chicken sandwich at the Cafe Drydock & Inn in Southwest Harbor, about 10 minutes from Bass Harbor, and continued on my way.
The Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse is one of the most popular lighthouses in Maine. It sits right outside Acadia National Park and is situated along a steep rocky outcropping right on the coast. It’s absolutely beautiful and, although it’s one of those token iconic images, I knew I had to capture it to get it out of my system. And for good reason. Just as I made my way down the trail to the shoreline, I saw about 8 or 9 photographers already set up. And there wasn’t much room to maneuver. So I had to settle for perching on the top of a rock overlooking the other photographers as well as sharing the space with a family vacationing in the area. In the end, this turned out perfectly OK, especially since, as the sun broke through the early evening clouds, we were treated to a perfectly stunning cotton candy sky. The colors ran the gamut from purple to pink to orange to magenta to red to yellow. And the streaks couldn’t have been more perfect, as they mimicked what would normally have been radiating beams of lighthouse light.
Now that I had my ‘lighthouses’ out of my system, I had the next 2 days to completely explore with absolutely no agenda, and Acadia National Park to do it in. Those 48 hours included driving around the park on Park Loop Road to get acquainted with the premises. Spent about 90 minutes hiking a part of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the North Atlantic seaboard and the first place in the U.S. to see the sunrise (sadly I did not get the chance to capture a sunrise there this time around) before heading into various parts of the park including a walk around a sizable portion of Jordan Pond, a trip down to the Wildwood Stables where I began a 3 hour hike on the old Rockefeller Carriage Roads – a 57 mile network of stone gravel roads designed especially for hikers, walkers, and horse drawn carriages by John D. Rockefeller in the early 1900s, a drive down the bayside Sergeant Road, snaking through the various harbors, from Northwest Harbor to Southwest Harbor to Fremont, and a final sunset in Maine which I enjoyed and captured at the end of the Wonderland Trail at the southernmost tip of the island.
My first foray into New England will absolutely not be my last. Maine was everything I imagined it to be and more. Beautiful. Charming. Quaint. Comfortable. Spacious. Green. Perfect. The uniquely vibrant aquatic architecture, the fenceless neighborhoods where you could rarely tell where one grassy property ended and the next began, the creamy home-churned ice cream on every corner, the stacks of lobster traps and buoys dotting the driveways, the random 5 minute outbursts of rain, the village-like atmosphere and old-school red-roofed Post Office on every Main Street up and down the coast, the smell of fresh seafood everywhere you stepped, and the wide smiles of those well out of the throughs of the winter months happily serving it all to you.
Maine, you had me at hello. I can’t wait to get back.
Below is a set of images from those 5 days, all of which were taken on Samsung NX1 and Samsung NX500 cameras. Click on any of them and it’ll open up a lightbox slideshow.
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I just returned from 2 weeks in Maine. 2 amazing weeks in Maine. It was my first time in the State, and I know already that it won’t be my last. The first 8 days of the trip were spent working at a summer camp in Naples, where we were hired to shoot a video for the camp, which I will share here once we’re done editing, and I will talk more about in a coming post in the next few days, but in the meantime, I just wanted to pass along an image I shot at the iconic Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse just outside Acadia National Park a few nights ago. After the job in Naples, I drove up the coast for a few days of image-making and on the first night, I got super lucky as the clouds parted just about an hour before sunset to reveal this fantastic scene. Click here for a high resolution version for your phones and tablets if you’d like. And if you’d like an alternate version for your desktop, click here.
Anyhow, I’m currently preparing a blog post that will explain more about what I was doing in Maine and will have many more pictures, but just wanted to share this one while it was still fresh.
