Every once in a while an acquaintance will ask me to do a portrait of them (or their kids).
Happens maybe two or three times a year.
I usually say: “Yes, but only if I can do whatever I want”.
You see, most of the people I photograph, I’m photographing for some other person
or entity. A magazine or [...]

I like bridges.
Here are three shots/four bridges…..from the west coast, the middle and
the east coast of the U.S.A.

The Bay Bridge, San Francisco

Eads Bridge and The Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge, St Louis

The Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y.C.

Scheduling is just about one of my least favorite parts of my job.
Without it, though, nothing gets shot. You gotta get yourself and the
subject(s) of the photo(s) in the same place at the same time.
(I was once shooting at a hi-tek place. I showed the little mini-portfolio I
travel with to the client. [...]

Millhaven Penitentiary: a group of buildings surrounded by a chain link fence,
a ten foot track and another chain link fence. Both fences are topped with twin
rolls of razor wire. Guard towers at every corner. Maximum security.
Ben (the assistant) and I were checking in at the guardhouse (which is just outside the
perimeter). [...]