CATALYSTS
Profoundly touch & influence my life. I would not be here without them:
Margaret Ambrose | Richard Creagh | Art Dorval | Kim Hamilton | Robert ‘PJ’ Johnson | Jenna & Randy LaRose | Marc Levine | Rhett Maughan
Geoff Nyheim | Thane Slagowski | Matt Smith | Shawn Waldron
CHEERLEADERS
Endlessly encourage & empower me to share my passion with the world:
Alisen & Duane Blanchard | Ross & Edith Brown | Richard Carvill | Forrest Hobbs | Rusty Pollard | Larry & Susan Shaw | Kathy Suznevich
CO-CONSPIRATORS
Freely share their time, talent, expertise &/or resources to help me fulfill my photographic mission:
Catherine Grisez | Dustin Knievel | Diane Maehl | Ron Martinsen | Mindy Redd | Jeanne Tiscareno
PASSIONS
Passionate about: making interesting & beautiful photographic images, driving, discovering new places, getting up to see the sunrise, inspiring others
Passionate about making images of: trees, old barns, fences, old vehicles, landscapes, shorelines, fog, wood, feet, animals
Passionate about having made images here in 2008 /9: Crater Lake Oregon, Yosemite California, Grand Tetons Wyoming, Southern Utah, Northern New Mexico, Bora Bora French Polynesia, England, Yellowstone Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Mount Hood Oregon, Southern Florida, BC & Alberta Canada
Passionate about going to make images here in 2010: Alaska, BC Canada, The Grand Canyon Arizona, Monument Valley Utah, Rocky Mountain Colorado, Southern Utah, Yellowstone Wyoming
GEAR
I don’t have a ton of expensive gear (ok, well compared to a $100 point-&-shoot, I do). Gear doesn’t make great pictures. Gear just helps make it easier.
You still need to be in the right place at the right time, know what all the knobs & buttons do & when to use which ones, understand lighting & composition, have a good “eye”, be willing to look really quite foolish in public at times by lying down in places where people don’t normally lie down, standing on things that may not have been intended to be stood on, balancing precariously off of various objects & pointing your camera at things that no one else would ever dream of making a photograph of. And, of course, the knack of pressing the {big} button at just the right moment. You also have to be willing to get up when everyone else is sleeping & be outside lying in a field or hanging off a mountain when everyone else is eating dinner & chillin’ out.
Gear just makes it easier in the making: if you’re photographing wildlife & you don’t have a 600 mm piece of glass, you’ve got to get pretty close to get the same result. You can still get the shot, but you might get eaten in the process. An expensive piece of glass will make it easier to avoid being eaten.
There’s plenty of people who have expensive gear who can’t make a great photograph to save their lives. There’s also plenty of people who make great photographs with the simplest & cheapest gear. It’s more about YOU than the gear.
Nikon D300 | Nikon 17-55 f2.8 | Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR | No filters
Friend: Wow! Those are great photos. You must have a really good camera.
CB: Yeah. And that was a fantastic meal you just cooked. You must have really good pots.
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