Growing As An Artist

Line Up the Painted Ladies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury

It’s as if someone dipped a brush in rainbow paint and spread it across the city of San Francisco, California. Explore photographs of Painted Ladies and learn their history.
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Life as a Photokina Presenter // Travel, Photography, Ham Sandwiches, & LOVE

For six days, I had the amazing opportunity to present my work as a travel photographer in front of hundreds of people at Photokina 2012. Take a behind the scenes look at the life of a presenter.
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Scenes From Photokina: Cameras, Models, Toys, Beauty & More

A photographic guide to all the small and large details of Photokina 2012: the world’s largest imaging fair, located in Cologne, Germany.
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Primary Colors & Digital Editing: 5 Photos that Capture the Color

First I photograph; then I create! Next, I choose 5 postprocessed images to match each of five colors: white, green, blue, red, yellow. Finally, I enter this post into the Capture the Color competition.
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7 Awesome Photos from my Current Backpacking Adventure

Here are 7 of my absolute favorite photos from my current backpacking adventure across India and Thailand. They include sunrises, sunsets, running from a fire and the worst pillow ever!
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My Solo Photo Exhibition: A DIY Project on Treasure Island

Since moving to San Francisco, I’ve dreamed of having a photography booth at a street fair. Two years later, I realized that dream in Booth 304 at the Treasure Island Flea Botique Pop-Up Show.
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Seven Years of this Site’s Evolution: Told Through Screenshots

Screenshots and long-lost details of the 4 different versions of this site over the years plus all the various lessons I learned along the way.
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A Google+ Adventure Around San Francisco

When the Interwebs meet real life… I joined 30 Google+ photographers in San Francisco to wander around and take pictures of the city’s buildings, bridges, construction sites, sculptures and urban swagger. What follows are a dozen of my best shots as well as stories of what it was like meeting these complete strangers.
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Homemade James Bond, 007, Movie Posters

Over the past fifteen years, my James Bond Web site has taught me everything I know about Photoshop, where one of my earliest hobbies was creating James Bond fan movie posters for the site.
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Factories, Art, Industrial Decay, Vessels and Dinner in Oakland, California

Large industrial warehouses and captivating urban decay dominate the area surrounding 16th Street in Oakland, California, where I had the pleasure of showing some of my photography during the Local Social Vessels event last month.
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The Filming of a Theory

Everyone loves seeing a movie being filmed, so when the production of Conspiracy Theory came to my hometown of Roosevelt Island, New York City, in 1996, I did what any high school photographer would do: grabbed my camera and a roll of B&W film and started documenting.
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My Rock and Roll Photos in a Newspaper

Back in August, I had the opportunity to take photos at the Outside Lands music festival for the Benicia Herald newspaper in California. During the first three songs of their sets, I was in the photographer’s pit snapping away as Al Green, Phoenix, Nas & Damian Marley and Janelle Monae …
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Rock and Roll Photographer For a Day

When my buddy Marc needed someone with a “nice camera” to take photos at the 2010 Outside Lands music festival for his newspaper, the Benicia Herald, I jumped at the opportunity. The unpaid but totally awesome gig came with a VIP pass and special entrance to the photographer’s pit right …
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Can I Live Off Groupon For A Year?

Every day I get an email in my inbox from Groupon with an offer for a half-priced or discount coupon to some business in San Francisco. It can be anything from a meal to a massage, fired dancing lessons, haircuts (not for me :P ) theater tickets or baseball games. …
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