Oakland, California | 2010

I like looking at buildings.

San Jose Convention Center | July 27, 2010

2010 | 2006 | 2009

Windows and walls.

I recently photographed UC Santa Cruz graduate student Chelsey Juarez in the Stable Isotope Lab on the campus of UC Santa Cruz for Mark Murrmann at Mother Jones Magazine, a new client.  Chelsey has come up with a way of identifying the remains of immigrants who die crossing the US border from Mexico by their teeth.  Here are a few outtakes.

On the first day of July this is what I saw.

I like to look at buildings.

SF | July 15, 2010

Every once in a while I’m commissioned to photograph the same person at different times for different clients.  Bay Area writer Michael Pollan is one such subject whom I met and photographed at his home two and a half years apart and most recently this month.  It’s always interesting to solve the same problem twice; same subject, same location and same general request from the client.  Much of Michael’s work centers around food and our relationship to it.  It’s a fascinating subject and he does a terrific job shedding light on a complex issue.  His books are a must-read for anyone who eats food.  You can learn more about it here.

July 2010

December 2007

A place I haven’t been before

Woodland, California | July 12, 2010

27 minutes

SFO | July 11, 2010

Albino Alligator | Starfish

Marina | Berkeley, CA | July 7, 2010

4:54 pm | 4:59 pm | 5:09 pm

July 3, 2010

Tule Elk  |  Crow

California Coast

“They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.”
– Henry Beston

Fractal geometry records what happens in the transition zones between order and chaos.  What is revealed is an aesthetic order to the haphazard grouping.