Apocalypse Now

Two days ago—3:00-4:00 PMBack roads through Woodside, Portola Valley, and Los Altos HillsOrdinary things look uncanny in lurid light:Tricycles, trees, kiosks, headlights, chains, fences, signsEven a church is ghoulish in wicked lightMy favorite is the No Parking signThat, or the fence with chainYours? Contact me for kids, teens, couples, family, and corporate photography in the BayContinue reading “Apocalypse Now”

Pensive Is Joy

  Faces without expression interest me. I like the ambiguity, the pensiveness. But clients don’t like Pensive. Not as a general rule. They like unvarnished Joy. Always have. So. Lately I’m doing something different. During family photo shoots, I run participants through a series of prompts. Together we travel from Pensive to Joy With manyContinue reading “Pensive Is Joy”

Utterly Absorbed

Flow. Attunement. Peak performance. By whatever term, I’m a big fan of this kind of moment. It’s as perfect as we can get, we nickle-plated angels and gold-crusted demons. In Iceland, Paige is doing what comes naturally to kids everywhere: Playing as seriously as a scientist at work. Absorbed in a blade of grass withContinue reading “Utterly Absorbed”