Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Well lucky me… I seem to be on to a sort of new Holiday tradition, and hence the lack of postings for the last week. This is the second year in a row that I’ve been sick as a dog during the holidays. Yesterday was my first day of feeling back to normal.
So I’m wishing a belated [...]

Picture: Boogie board (skimboard) surfer flying through air over ocean wave, Balboa Island, Newport Beach, Southern California Coast.

This has always been one of my favorite portfolio-worthy people shots from when I was working on my California Coast book. As such, I think this also a great image to introduce my new four-page Los Angeles / Orange County [...]

Picture: Couple shares a romantic moment on coastal rocks watching the sunset over the Pacific Ocean from Scripss Park, La Jolla, San Diego County coast, California.

And by way of another introduction, this image part of my new online image galleries recently posted to the site. This time the images are in a collection called the San Diego [...]

Picture: Moonset at sunrise over vineyard in winter, Valley of the Moon, Sonoma County, California

This photo has been in my Special California Wine Country Print Portfolio for this last year. But as a seasonal image, I thought this would be a great image to introduce my new 7-page Sonoma Wine Country web gallery. If you [...]

So that Royalty Free photo that you got way back when and not sure where… you’ve used for this and that without much thought, because after all, you were smart and purchased Royalty Free.
But are your Royalty Free photos really free to use for anything, anywhere? Probably Not. Did you know that your Royalty Free [...]

Picture: Hot Air Ballon and storm clouds at sunrise over vineyard near Oakville, Napa Valley, California.

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve just completed an overdue update to my website, including a number of new online photo galleries. The first gallery I’d like to introduce is the Napa Valley Vineyards and Wine Country. This [...]

I’ve just gotten through an update of my web site, the full details of which will come in another post (for those who haven’t received my newsletter). Probably the most important change is that I finally replaced that decade plus year-old photo of me on the About Me page. The new photo (in B&W) is [...]

Picture: “Native Spirit” – Raven flying by El Capitan at sunrise, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California.

“Native Spirit” is an image of fortunate circumstance and fleeting moments combined. I shot this image last year in Yosemite Valley. A cold snow storm had swept through the previous evening, and the clouds started to part right around [...]

Geez! I was gonna post a photo, but this is much more important. It’s been out for the last few weeks that a journalist named Stacey Bradford wrote an article for SmartMoney.com where (s)he lists the Top 5 annoying school costs. (S)he then suggests some money saving tips for each offending cost. Apparently it’s Ok [...]

This one is for the grown-ups:
In the news this last week, CNET reported on a a case where certain types of pictures of kids may help reform and redefine federal child pornography laws. This link came to me via a posting in a professional photographers newsgroup. On the CNET page, there is a link where [...]