we had our last happy hour at the barn tonight, and these guys were just starting to come into bloom around the picnic table where we watch the sunset. They were just little pods a few days ago but just unraveled over the past few days of rain.
india the mare
I'm going to miss this one 3.22.18
48 hrs...
I've shot 11 homes and 30,966 square feet worth of house in the past 48 hours and taken 2192 photos... one of which was not real estate related. This was Buena Vista lagoon after my shoot last night.
Iversone looking fierce
last days at the barn
The barn we've been keeping Rome at for the past few years is closing permanently on may 1st with the land being turned into a housing development. It's a sad turn of events, and we will miss the good times and great friends we've made there, but we are also looking forward to a new home. This is Rowdy being a little camera shy. 3.17.18
I always feel like these light poles are protesting
encinitas, ca 3.16.18
a couple of pigs taking a nap at barking elf ranch in san elijo, ca
cardiff, ca 3.14.18
Toni Frissell began her career in photography in the 1930s, at first working as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine. During World War II, she was, for a time, the official photographer for the American Red Cross, and later, the Women’s Army Corps. Her work took her to Europe, where she photographed soldiers and... continue reading
The Works of Photographer Toni Frissell
seaside market, cardiff, ca 3.12.18
I shot 7 properties today so not a whole lot of time to make any photos other than this one I snapped on my phone while waiting for a burrito at seaside in cardiff. surf and turf burrito with the tri-tip was AMAZING
encinitas, ca 3.11.18
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet performs 12/12 from the album Nuevo (2002) in oceanside, ca 3.10.18
After the tsunami: Japan's sea walls – in pictures
Seven years on from the earthquake and tsunami, residents on the north-east coast have rebuilt their lives alongside huge sea walls that should protect them if another disaster strikes... {read more}
Found on the side of a mountain in Bonsall.
Interview with Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz
One day 55 years ago, Joel Meyerowitz was roaming the streets of his native New York with a 35mm camera when he glimpsed something through an arcade window that stopped him in his tracks. A young woman was standing with her back to him, tenderly grooming her boyfriend’s pompadour with a comb... {read more}
Work Cheat
I don't feel good about breaking my own rules regarding posting work pics but since I literally had no time today to shoot anything but houses today, here's a little behind the scenes of me doing some lighting for a shot that I think turned out pretty great in san elijo. the shot on the right is the final result... feel free to play spot the difference. :)
catalina island over carlsbad from san elijo hills 3.5.18
Andrea's new tattoo
Andrea got a new feather tattoo today from Gabe at 454 in Encinitas... pretty nice work
cabrillo national monument, point loma, ca 3.2.18
point loma
fort rosecrans national cemetery, point loma, ca 3.2.18
fort rosecrans national cemetery, point loma, ca 3.2.18
Blinded by the light: the violence of flash photography
Susan Sontag was deliberately provocative when she coupled photography with violence. There is, she wrote in the essay ‘In Plato’s Cave’ (1977), ‘something predatory in the act of taking a picture’. She pointed out that we speak casually about ‘loading’ and ‘aiming’ a camera: ‘Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder.’ Sontag knew that she was using hyperbole, prodding her readers to consider the seizing of someone else’s identity that is implicit in each portrait that is shot.
But it is decidedly less of an exaggeration to couple violence with one particular photographic technology: flash. From the earliest decades of flash photography... {read more}