Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Evening light and nearly full moon over the Oakland – San Francisco Bay Bridge, and San Francisco Bay, from the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California

This week I gave a private workshop to clients working along the San Francisco Embarcadero. One great challenge of this workshop, was that for reasons we won’t discuss here, the workshop [...]

File this one under better late than never: My Newsletter Resolution.
Last year when I sent out my annual Holiday Newsletter, I mentioned that for 2007 I was going to be switching to the Constant Contact service, and that I would hopefully shift the Newsletters to a monthly issue. Well, here it is, December 2007, and [...]

No, it’s not what you think. I’m not Chicken Little screaming about the end of the world and the sky falling down. Let’s start again:
How do stock photographers know we’re approaching the end of the year?
We start getting photo want lists filled with names of people we’ve never heard of, except for the few names [...]

And you thought you were having a bad day?
Imagine this; You’re living on a planet somewhere. Then, all of the sudden, a blast of cosmic winds from the galaxy next door comes along, and toasts you, your planet, and all the other planets in your part of the galaxy. Sound far-fetched? It’s not. In fact, [...]

Picture: Oak trees and sunbeams through morning fog at sunrise, in the hills above Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California

I thought it would be nice to post a few more of my favorite images from the recent new image galleries that I’ve uploaded onto my web site. This picture was one of my favorites from the [...]

The North American Nature Photographers Association, (NANPA) is holding their annual conference for 2008 in San Destin, Florida from Feb. 27 – March 2nd.
This year, instead of being a regular attendee at the conference, I will be co-leading the Pro’s Meeting. The Pro’s Meeting is a 90-minute breakout session where we will be discussing many [...]

I’ve never taken a Photojournalism class, or any journalism class for that matter. That makes me admittedly a little fuzzy on the subject of ethics for reporters. PDN Pulse reports this week on a photographer getting fined $1,000.00 and possible jail time for refusing to hand over a bunch of unpublished images that are being [...]

Photo: Clouds shroud the summit of the Grand Teton at sunrise, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

No more sneak peeks at new galleries. If you check the home page of my web site, you’ll see that the recent galleries that I’ve posted here under the sneak peeks are all now linked for public access. The galleries [...]

To shed more light on my last post about what was taking up so much of my free time over the last six weeks, I’d like to introduce my new, first, mistress. She’s unnamed of yet, but she’s a 1993 20′ Seaswirl Striper 205 w/ a 140 Hp OB.

After weeks of looking, I finally found [...]