Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

I’m not expressing any particular political viewpoint here, but it should be well known that there are certainly times when art & politics collide. The most recent and major arts related issue to go bashing its way down the halls of Congress has been the Orphan Works legislation. (Find out more about Orphan Works from [...]

Thanks to a recent thread in a newsgroup forum, I found this very useful link about State Laws and Guidelines for photography or videography of voters, voting, and polling places. Please note the disclaimer on the web site saying that the information is not meant to be interpreted as legal advice. If you are interested [...]

When was the last time you had a door slammed in your face. For me, it was this afternoon when Digital Railroad suddenly shut it’s doors. This was the short note on the Homepage, simply titled, “Final Goodbye”.

I must say that this short, nearly terse and unsympathetic move leaves a really bad taste in the [...]

Picture: Kids walking in an outdoor labyrinth, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California
This is the first time in more than 15 years I ever shot anything based on a standard want list photo request. Earlier this summer, a regional magazine had posted a request for various outdoor labyrinths. One of the locations they listed [...]

1ProPhoto.com (formerly known as PhotoAssistant.net) has posted an excellent 5-part interview with professional industry consultant Selina Maitreya. Selina is one of the top go-to people that commercial photographers seek out for marketing advice and portfolio presentation. She has also written two books, and has a newsletter that you can sign up for at her website, [...]

And so it goes. My weblog suddenly went blank for a few days last week. And I mean “Blank”. No errors, no messages indicating a problem, just a plain white page was all any visitors would see when trying to access my weblog. Of course I immediately sent in a tech support ticket to my [...]

Bad news for the stock market. No, the other Stock Market; the photo one. Today news came in the form of an email from Digital Railroad announcing drastic cuts in staffing and expenses due to a failure to procure new sources of funding. Almost immediately, John Harrington posted a very revealing article on his Photo [...]

Picture: Red clouds at sunset over Lake Tahoe, California

“Oh my God; Look at that light!” That’s usually what I am welping like a wounded dog when I see something that looks photographically fantastic, yet I have no camera.
I was in Lake Tahoe for the weekend, with my wife, and without our kids. Even though [...]

Picture: For Sale sign on the California Coast, Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California

On my first visit to Shelter Cove about seven years ago, I took this image of a For Sale sign stuck right in the middle of this prime waterfront lot. This was a great example of the feeling I had as I drove [...]

Picture: A ray of bright sunlight through dark storm clouds, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Here in the US, we’ve had a very rough week with our financial markets going into a seemingly dark abyss, and the scent of crisis and fear is spreading across the land. Listening to the news, it was very easy [...]