Sunday, January 10th, 2010
This has always looked otherworldly to me.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
One of my neighbors in Stockton.
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
During this timed exposure, the tripod fell over. I managed to catch it before it hit the ground, thank goodness. This is the result.
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Beware the blue-eyed hunter!
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
These happened to land right in front of us.
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
It’s like a bluebelly on steroids. This was a female Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus).
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Those were wild and crazy times.
Happy new year!
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
There is an infinite amount of nothing (there is far more nothing than there is something).
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
This was all done in the darkroom using multiple exposure, dodging, and solarization. It took hours and multiple tries.
Now it could be done in Photoshop in minutes. But, where’s the fun in that?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Back in my darkroom days, and before Photoshop, I used to do fun things like this.
Kim is actually in my swimming pool. The technique you see here is called solarization, but with dodging around her head. The “stars” are actually sand sprinkled on the photo paper during the second exposure.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
They were just hanging out at the beach in San Diego. I didn’t even recognize them until months later, looking through my album art.
This was around Summer 1978.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
I was able to meet Mr. Mull in college when my friend Karen, who was a singing Playboy bunny, hired herself to go up on stage and present him a greeting from his local fan club (which was her). She brought me along to photograph the event.
It went over so well he asked if she could do it again for the second show. So between shows we hung out with him backstage, and he talked about the early days when he and Steve Martin were a comedy team (Steve Martin Mull).
Monday, November 30th, 2009
This is Jim Stafford. I interviewed and photographed him for my college paper.
What a decent, down-to-earth, talented guy. He now has one of those theaters in Branson, Missouri.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

This is the actual barrel of Atomic Annie, the world’s only cannon to have fired a nuclear warhead. It’s sitting at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
Can you imagine anything more frightening than standing next to a cannon that’s about to fire an atomic payload? What if it doesn’t go far enough away? What if it detonates inside the cannon?
Maybe these questions are why it was only fired once.
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Back in the late 70’s, this was accepted for publication in Popular Photography. I don’t know if it ever actually appeared, though.
It was my first experience with having to get a model (in this case, her parents) to sign a model release.
Monday, November 9th, 2009
This is my old friend and fellow photographer Mel standing on a hill.

I was playing with a diffraction filter on my old Canon F1.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Old friends (and neighbors) Kim and Larry.
I was trying to take a serious photo with them looking stoic in front of the American flag, but then a gust of wind came up and the shot went wrong – or actually, I think, right.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
If I had to have a favorite bug, this would be it.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
I think I was about 18 years old here.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
She was Playboy’s 1977 Playmate of the Year, and I was so nervous I could barely speak.
This is what she was signing…

Saturday, October 24th, 2009
From one of my infamous pool parties, sometime around 1980.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Black and white portrait from the mid 1970’s.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
“Otis” was a rubber mask we had as teenagers. This escalator sucked it down into it’s mechanical innards and we never saw it again.
Below, a shot earlier that afternoon, where my friends Brad and Dan managed to coax two passing strangers into posing for this shot.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
My daughter Danielle, who’s birthday it is today.
Happy birthday, sweetheart!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
My old friends Jason, Pat, Dan, Eric, and David, in the cover for a punk rock album that was never released.
Monday, October 12th, 2009
This is what I considered my early masterpiece. Created entirely in the darkroom, I combined my telephoto picture of the moon with an old shack in the central California delta farmland, using a technique of combination dodging and solarization.
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
This is actually from back in my darkroom days – when you did “photoshopping” on an enlarger. This is two exposures on one piece of paper, the bottom first and the top second. Notice solarization to each side, where the bridge railing meets the sky.