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Night Shot with Dropped Camera
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.
Texas Spiny Lizard
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
It’s like a bluebelly on steroids. This was a female Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus).
Contemplating Infinity
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
There is an infinite amount of nothing (there is far more nothing than there is something).
Big Brad, Little Kim
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?
Kim as Heavenly Body
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.
Steely Dan
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.
Martin Mull
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).
Jim Stafford
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.
Atomic Annie
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.
Kim
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.
Mel of the Sun
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.
Stockton Gothic
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.
Patti McGuire
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…
Blond with Towel
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
From one of my infamous pool parties, sometime around 1980.
The Adventures of Otis Eknid
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.
Danielle with Face Painting
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
My daughter Danielle, who’s birthday it is today.
Happy birthday, sweetheart!
Captain Lead and the Letdowns
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.
Moon Shack
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.
Moon Over Bridge
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.