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Small Moments
My favorite style of photo to take is the macro type. There’s something magical about close detail, and bringing it to life with a lens. Not that broad landscapes aren’t beautiful, but it’s the small moments I like. The fuzzy components, the texture, the closeness. Here are a collection of macro images I’ve taken in [...]
New Pal: Louie!
A new friend entered our life this month, and his name is Louie! He’s a Pembroke Welsh Corgi pup, and a great guy. As a lifelong dog lover, it’s been on my list for the last several years to get another dog. And after my mom recently came to Portland to visit, she convinced me [...]
Who Am I?
In an age of crowdsourcing, freelancing, contracting and multi-tasking, it’s easy to feel like you’re juggling multiple careers. I often feel this way, and wonder how it affects me. From a personal standpoint, the hard thing about narrowing down my own path has been my interest in so many diverging industries. As a kid I [...]
Congo/Infrared
The Congo. A tough place, indeed. In 2005 I briefly stepped foot across the border of Rwanda into this lush, dense, jungle land that is the heart of Africa. I was there doing humanitarian work, and it was exhilarating and tragic and real. I met strong Africans who told me stories of the violence and [...]
Stopping Keystone XL
On Thursday, November 10th, President Obama decided to send the massive Keystone XL pipeline project back to the drawing board. He delayed any decision-making on the project for at least two years, effectively killing it. Most experts agree that the pipeline will never be able to meet the strict zoning, environmental and health requirements that [...]
Legend.
The death of Steve Jobs hit me like a stack of lumber to the chest. I knew his health was poor, though naively believed that someone of his importance would receive extraordinary medical care that would cure him. He was just as human as the rest of us, despite his incredible mark he’s left on [...]
Time to Build.
For all of the talk of recession these days, corporations and businesses are making money, and many of them are sitting on huge piles of cash. It can’t help but conjur up images of Scrooge McDuck, swan diving into a giant swimming pool of gold. Despite all of that, unemployment is becoming a chronic plague [...]
Albertus Seba
A lesser known, but critically important Dutch naturalist. Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. Born in 1665, Seba grew up near the ocean, and at a young age was captivated by the diversity of life living in the sea. Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy [...]
Charley Harper
Artistic genius, modernist, visionary. Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a well known American artist from Cincinnati. His work is immediately captivating, exuding both a playful sense of humor and an exacting eye for form and color. In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual [...]
Arches
Monoliths, fins, and arches. Those are the formations that strike you when entering Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. Not designated a national park until 1973, the 119 square mile Arches has become synonymous with Delicate Arch, the iconic (and amazing) rock formation that graces Utah’s license plates and state publicity. But a visit [...]
