After a long day of battling the wind on various interstate highways, we arrived in Amarillo, Texas, just in time to catch the last rays of sun on Cadillac Ranch. I’ve wanted to see this for years and now… well… I have. So there you go. Now in Albuquerque, it’s looking like opportunities to connect [...]

Another portrait from Egypt — this time a potter taking a break to have some tea. I had a print order to run last week and sent this and my Chinese kite flyer along for a couple of 11x14s. I don’t often get prints made for myself but these two look really nice. As usually [...]

Photographing people in Egypt is not always easy. Many want “baksheesh” — typically a dollar unless they see you have more (on a side note, on this recent trip I heard at least one person refer to American dollars as “Obamas”). I don’t have a problem with compensating someone for taking their photo but in [...]

When I heard that there would be 23 of us riding in the same balloon basket for a sunrise shoot on the west bank of Luxor, I hesitated. That’s a lot of folks and I knew everyone would want to be on the edge for photos but I was assured that the basket would be [...]

Busy days lately but I took a day off to go shoot with my K4/Photodudes buddies on Friday. The sky was mostly dreary but opened up once or twice like it did here at a one room schoolhouse in the Flint Hills near the ghost town of Volland. Hardly a lost day, though, as it [...]