Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Photo: Taking a photo; Three young women riding horses on the sand at Oceano State Beach, Oceano, California

Like the girl in the photo seems to be doing, every once in awhile, you need to put yourself front and center. So allow me to do a little self promotion, and invite you to read an interview [...]

Thanks to my friend Ross for sending me this. Photographer David Bergman as at President Obama’s Inauguration. And he’s got a stitched image from a Gigapan Imager to prove it. His image is made up of 220 Canon G10 photos, and measures approx. 60,000 x 25,000 pixels. Yep, it’s got some serious detail.
Check out David’s [...]

Photo: Alpenglow at sunrise on North Peak, Twenty Lakes Basin, Eastern Sierra, California

With a post titled “A New Beginning”, you might think I would be referring to today’s Inauguration of President Obama. I certainly do wish him, Us, and the planet well.
However, I get to announce my own New Beginning, or rather, the release [...]

Once again the Boston Globe’s BIG PICTURE has scored an impressive collection of images I felt compelled to pass along. This time, it’s a collection of photos taken from NASA’s Earth Observatory. These are remarkably crisp, detailed portraits of our planet, and well worth a look.
The image above is not from some other world, but [...]

Recently, fellow photographer Jim Goldstein posted his 10 Best images for 2008. To top it off, he created a great Blog Project called “Your 10 Best Images of 2008″ where he has invited others to do the same. I thought it was a great idea, so here are my top 10 images from last year, [...]

Almost everyone knows the enduring photographic portrait that gave a feeling and a face to the Great American Depression. It’s simply titled, “Migrant Mother”, and was an image taken by Dorothea Lange while she was working for the US Government, documenting migrant farm workers. That face now has a name; she was Florence Owens Thompson. [...]