The stories behind the photos. Sometimes 1000 words isn't enough, so I add a few more.

Kirkuk, Iraq. 2005

While deployed to Iraq in 2005 I took a lot of photos. Many times it was easy because we were sitting for hours in one location. Boredom was eased by taking photos of spiders and fellow airmen. Other times we were out and about occasionally rolling through a friendly section of town. The kids always wanted Pepsi for some reason. In the photo above, these kids were yelling, "Mister, mister! Pepsi, pepsi!" 

Otherwise known as the bald-headed baby, Kyle was my sister's friend's son. He wasn't bald at all, but I captured this image of him sitting on the side of a hill with head shaven for summertime heat, watching a goat forage for food. I developed and printed this image in class at school and then hung it up in my locker. Pretty soon he, via this image, became famous at my high school. Everyone had seen the bald-headed baby.

Aren't all clowns scary? Yes. This clown was captured in the forest between Plubell's and Grandpa's Cellar at Apple Hill. I just shot it from the hip as it was passing by. My friends and I would go to Apple Hill every fall to get apple pies and other baked delights from the farms in Camino. I still go up there now out of tradition and because of the fact that Grandpa's Cellar has the best pies in the world.

I love the Los Angeles area. I lived in the South Bay area of LA in Redondo Beach and then later in Manhattan Beach. If you've ever flown into LAX you know the great expanse of humanity that is the LA metro area. One day while hiking up to the Griffith Observatory after a day of rain, I captured this photo of downtown beneath the clouds, already showing signs of smog. I submitted this photo to a Dwell magazine photo contest and it was picked and printed in a small photo book put out by the publisher.

Oh, what can I say...a month in China isn't enough to capture everything, not even when traveling by high speed train. Many of the scenes I photographed were so big I had to stitch panoramas together. Many of the experiences were incapable of being captured at all. How do you fit a billion moving objects into a stationary image?   

Dmitry and Dasha were expecting their first child when they had me photograph them around San Francisco. Living in "The City" has its benefits when you're a photographer. Lots of great locations! However, the weather isn't always your friend. Don't they both look so warm and lovely in the photo above, bathed in the glow of the golden Spring sunlight? Well guess what, we were all freezing our butts off in 25 mph winds...real troopers, those two.