Forbidden Trail

This can be seen while hiking at the forbidden trail in Pennsylvania. This is a great place for family outings or a peaceful walk to your self as you enjoy the fresh air and beautiful landscape. Many people come here to hike, walk there dogs, and mountain bike with friends and family. 

Santa Barbara Farmers Market

One of the best things about living in California is the year round fresh fruits and vegetables. Local farmers set up stands in Santa Barbara on Tuesdays and Saturdays to sell a variety of goods ranging from fruits, vegetables, cheese, nuts, breads, meats and flowers. While shopping for fresh goods to enjoy later at home you can often enjoy local musicians playing music.

Mulholland Drive

This is one of the spectacular views  you can see while driving along  Mulholland Drive in California. Mulholland Drive is a road that runs along the Santa Monica Mountains over looking various parts of Los Angeles. Many of the homes set back off this road are the most exclusive and most expensive homes in the world.

Music

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”

-Anonymous 

Bicycle

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. 

Albert Einstein

Smile For The Camera

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

Roger Caras

Pelican

• The great white pelican catches about 1.2 kg of fish a day in its large throat pouch.
• The brown pelican dives from a height of 15 m above the water to catch fish below below the surface. 
• There are seven species of pelican. Most live and feed around fresh water, but the brown pelican is a seabird.
• A great white pelican comes in to land on the water.
• One of the largest pelicans is the Australian pelican, which is up to 180 cm long and weighs about 15 kg.
• The white pelican lays 1-2 eggs in a nest mound on the ground. Both parents help to incubate the eggs and care for the young.
• Pelican chicks are able to stand at 3 weeks old and can fly at 7-10 weeks old.
• White pelicans work as a group to herd fish into a shoal by swimming around them in a horseshoe formation. 
• In flight, a pelican flaps its wings 1.3 times a second. This is one of the slowest wingbeat speeds, when actively flying, of any bird.

Saguaro Cactus

• The saguaro is a slow-growing plant. 
• It takes the cactus roughly 14 years to grow three feet tall and between 60 and 75 years to sprout its first arm.
• The saguaro cactus produces its first flower when it is about 50 years old. 
• The white blossoms open only at night, last less than 24 hours.
• The saguaro cactus is home to two kinds of birds, both the Gila Woodpecker and Glided Flicker bore holes in the saguaro and use them as a nest.
•  Native American people made flour, cakes and jam from the saguaro's fruit, pulp and seeds.

Spanish Entryway

This entry way and foyer was designed by the home owners and contractor Mark Hemming. The inspiration for this room and house was from years of traveling to Mexico. This spanish style home is filled with authentic mexican art work, furniture, and souvenir collected over the numerous visits to mexico by the home owners. 

Pizza Oven

This is a pizza oven that is part of an outdoor kitchen located at a home in Ballard, California. The entire home was great to photograph my group and myself could not have asked for a better experience. The owners were great to us as well, making us pizza for lunch and much more.

Twilight Exterior

This is a twilight exterior of a modern home in Santa Yenz, Ca. I photographed this home which is inspired by Cliff May, with fellow photographer and friend Kim Gehr. This contemporary house is very inviting with its glass sliding doors and windows allowing the sunlight to stream in from every angle. Its unique simple design flows through out the house making it all come together as one outstanding piece of architecture. 

Modern Home

This is a photograph I took while photographing a Cliff May inspired home in Santa Yenz, CA. This modern home was great to photograph with a clean simple style the images are flawless. The homeowners  have a large collection of art pieces which were on display through out the home. Photographed here are three of the pieces of art a painting, statue of a person and a black sculpture. 

Family Roots

Family like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. 

-Anonymous 

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! This holiday always seems to be filled with candy, bunnies, eggs, and smiling children. I hope everyone was able to have a wonderful holiday, spending time with family and friends.

Hope is the thing with feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

-Emily Dicksinson

Birds Sing

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Lou Holtz

UCSB Gym

This is the entrance to the UCSB gym. There is a constant flow of students that continually come in and out to this facility all hours of the day. The entire UCSB campus offers great architectural photographs, it can be hard to choose which one to shoot. 

Union Hotel Details

These are several detail photographs I took while shooting at the Union Hotel. The decretive wood design is a close up of a headboard, the intricate wood carving and stunning wood stain just called my name. One of the other detail photographs is of an arm chair and the last photograph is a close up of the hardwood floor that is through out the hotel. 

Union Hotel

This is one of the rooms inside the Union Hotel located in Los Alamos, Ca. I photographed this hotel with fellow photographer and friend Kim Gehr.This room is the majestic room; other rooms include family room, governors suite, and many more. Each room had its own style and characteristics. The hotel and town take you back in time to a simper and slower way of life, surrounded by farms and local stores you will find your visit welcoming. 

Horse

Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth.  All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.  

~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Bubbles

This photograph is of a pepper and strawberry submerged in 7-UP. I choose a skinny glass cylinder to put the strawberry and pepper in so they would be close to each other and then filled it with 7-UP to create the bubbles. I did this with several different types of fruits and vegetables however I liked the shape of this glass and the thick white bubbles in this image the best.