One of my favorite buildings in Southern California is the Pacific Life headquarters at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. Completed in 1972, it covers 238,000 square feet of office space and was designed by William Pereira.
Heading south from Coachella on California’s Highway 111 in the town of Mecca is a place where fuel has never sold for more than 30 cents a gallon.
Shooting black & while film with the vintage 40-year old Canon A-1 at the official grand opening of X-Park La Quinta last month. It was a real treat to see the masters of skate Steve Caballero and Eddie Elguera show the young guns some old school moves!
Erupting from within a forgotten single-wide mobile home is where curator Stefanie Schneider and other artists including Carmen de Vos, Sven van Driessche, Julia Beyer, and Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde show their polaroid work in a permanent installation that may – or may not- be open should you visit. I captured this image on a visit to the Bombay Beach Biennale last week.
A diamond in the rough can be found 226.4 feet below sea level. Bombay Beach. Salton Sea, California.
What a treat to spend some quality time with the skate legends of today and tomorrow (and regular folks who skate, BMX, rollerblade, and ride some other stuff) this week for the official grand opening of the spanking-new X-Park La Quinta – California’s awesome competition-caliber Skate Park from the folks over at Spohn Ranch.
Here’s a few photos of the place – it’s going to be big! Well done everyone who made it happen!
Here’s a snap of my newest camera, a beautiful 42 year-old Canon A-1. The camera was made in 1980 and literally looks and works like new.
…Sometimes you need to go backwards to go forward.
P.S. The photo was made with the Canon R5 and edited in DxO’s Nik Silver Efx.
Photographed @LukeCombs and the band last night in Las Vegas as part of the #ShootFromThePit crew.
Here are just a couple of my favorite photographs captured during last night’s concert. A very special thanks to Luke, everyone in the band, and the crew for a truly amazing experience, especially to an amazing master and teacher of concert photography, @davidbergman.
What an incredible treat to photograph one of the world’s most legendary automobiles, known simply as “Ruthie @277.9mph” – the Koenigsegg Agera RS – under the big Chimera lightbox at Ancillary Studios, thanks to the generous hospitality of Tim Cadiente and the folks at FujiFilm, Samy’s Camera, and Broncolor. This very automobile holds several world’s records including reaching a top speed of 277.9mph.
Ruthie’s beautiful wrap was created by artist James Jean based on one of his paintings, “Pomegranate” to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Festival of Children Foundation.
It was my first chance to handle FujiFilm’s GFX large format digital camera with its massive 43.8mm × 32.9mm sensor. It is most impressive, to be sure.
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