I’d never seen San Jose City Hall in person before the night that I shot this image, but I was kind of weirded out and intrigued all at the same time. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, I wasn’t exactly expecting traditional architecture (see San Francisco City Hall), but the glass dome of the rotunda quickly grabbed my attention while the(...)
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Post tags: architecture, city hall, dome, glass, modern, san jose, stars

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I’m super stoked to share this news with the world! In fact, I’ve been holding on to the first part of this for about a month and just haven’t had the time to sit down an hammer out an announcement.

PPGBA: 1st and 3rd place!

At last month’s PPGBA (Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area) meeting and awards night, we got the results of the year end print competition. I was surprised and extremely honored to (...)
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Post tags: award, bridge, high contrast, parking lot, parking ramp, PPA, print competition

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It’s that time of year again when the Milpitas Post puts out its reader’s choice Best of 2010 issue and I had the extreme honor and pleasure to get to work on it again. You can(...)
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Post tags: commercial, editorial, milpitas, milpitas post, newspaper

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If you’re in the Redwood City area, make sure to find and pick up a copy of The Spectrum to see not only my cover photo above but (...)
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Post tags: cover, editorial, newspaper, redwood city

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I’m totally blown away by the results of last Thursday nights print competition at PPGBA and I’m super honored to have done as well as I did. This hand-held HDR image scored (...)
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Post tags: architecture, church, HDR, stone, wedding

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EDIT ADDED 4/26/2010: When I originally wrote this post a week ago I seemed to be suffering from really bad writer’s block. I have an emotional connection to this image and, in fact, I have an emotional connection to ALL of my images but sometimes I don’t (...)
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Post tags: GGP, kids, print competition, stairs

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I got an assignment from the Milpitas Post recently asking me to get some shots of the sole winery in Milpitas, Big Dog Vineyards, for an upcoming story. With the spring-time on again/off again weather we have been having here in Northern California (...)
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I’ll admit I’m like a fiend the way I check my Google Analytics, most often multiple times per day (there’s an app for that!), but I’m really bad about looking at my Flickr stats. Every once in a while I’ll sift through them to see where traffic is coming from that doesn’t originate from Flickr and I’ll find some interesting stuff.

I guess this all really started when I (...)
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It’s a win in my book! While it may technically be second place again, an 82 point merit print is another good effort for my second time in print competition. I went with the HDR above (...)
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I had another recent assignment for the Milpitas Post to grab some images for the 2010 Milpitas Visitor’s Guide and one of my images (...)
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