A big thanks to Steve Allison for becoming the first person to contribute to the “Work for Hire” experiment.
Steve purchased the “West Texas Windmill Adventure” package for the bargain rate of $7.34. Yesterday evening, I headed out with my super-hot assistant to the local windmill farm, and captured this one for Steve. I [...]

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We spent the weekend in DFW with our friends, and decided to take the scenic route back to Abilene. Instead of boring old I-20, we took Highway 180 which had us passing through Weatherford, Mineral Wells, Breckenridge, Albany and numerous other small towns. The road brought us into Abilene from the northeast, right [...]

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One year ago today Sara and I rode the cable car to the top of Table Mountain with my dad. I shot this with my widest lens (a 17mm, but effectively a 28mm on a cropped sensor), and was really wishing for one of those nifty 10-22mm ultra-wide angle lenses. It was incredible [...]

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One year ago today we left Kruger National Park for the long, long drive down to KwaZulu-Natal and my former home. We were trapped for a good 30 minutes by this family of elephants on our way out of the park, so I took advantage of the opportunity to snap a few shots of [...]

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An old, scanned 35mm film negative.
The summer I spent in Kenya, we were up before dawn, a lot. This is a shot from the mud hut the guys stayed in, looking over the main house (you can see the cell phone antenna on the left). It was cold as heck, but [...]

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