Category: Photo Stories

Articles that looks at some photos and discusses some details.

Meghnath, The Son Of Ravana

This is Meghnath, the son of the evil king Ravana. I think. When searching the Internet, it’s almost impossible to find information on the Kecak dance of Bali, Indonesia. Impossible. I’m working on a series of the various characters of the Kecak dance. They’ll all look similar to this, and it’s already looking pretty cool.…
Rolling Mesquite Dunes of Death Valley

The Mesquite sand dunes in Death Valley, California, are quite the sight. I really enjoyed my time there wondering around these dunes in the heat. It really is hard to walk around in these dunes. The sand is always sliding out from beneath your feet, and it takes so much more energy just to get…
The Great Yosemite Valley

This HDR photo is taken from the view right as you enter Yosemite Valley. It’s pretty breathtaking in real life. There is so much scale and scope to this place that you feel so small driving through it—kind of like the Grand Canyon. I like this place better, though. There is more to do. I…
Low Tide at Miyajima Japan

I like shooting HDR. It allows you to pull so much more color and shadows out of a scene. I shoot HDR in a lot of my photos, but I try to avoid that ‘HDR Look’ since that’s not really my thing. I do encourage people to shoot HDR, though, so they can get deep…
Rocky Bali Reef Break

The beautiful rocky reefs of Bali make for some really interesting and picture-perfect beach landscapes. In my last few photos, I’ve been playing around more with some retro light leak looks in Photoshop. It seems to add a new life to some of my old photos I never bothered processing because they didn’t have that…
Jungle Rice Fields of Bali

While touring a temple deep in the jungles of Bali, we immersed ourselves in this awesome sight. There are some rice fields in the clearing. It seems that in Bali, Indonesia, where there are no trees, you can almost always count on there being rice fields.
Trail Through Mariposa Grove

After staying in Yosemite Valley all day and night, it was time to head home. On the way back, we stopped at the Mariposa Grove, the largest Sequoia Grove in Yosemite. There was this cool little bridge, and the sun was peaking out just for a second to warm up the trees a bit with…
Sun Flares at Yosemite Falls

There are two types of Landscape Photographers. Those that have a monks patience and can sit around waiting for the time of day and weather to be perfect, and those who know Photoshop. I did a lot of Photoshop work on this one. Here is what it looked like out of my camera. To get…
Looking up at the Yosemite Falls

I was lucky enough to get to go to Yosemite for the second time this weekend. One of the many great things about being married to my Japanese wife is when her friends and family visit from Japan, they always want to go on awesome road trips. We considered going to the Grand Canyon this…
California Purple Daisies

I don’t usually take pictures of flowers, but my mom was with me, and she told me to. She actually had a few cool ideas about how I could take pictures of flowers that would look awesome hung on walls. Giant macro photos and paintings of flowers are sort of in style right now, and…