“Walk down the street, sit on a train, or fly on a plane, and what do you see? Most likely, many people with wires coming out of their ears. They’ve got earphones stuffed deep into their eardrums, drowning out the sounds of the world by blasting music directly into their brains.

I do this too. In fact I love listening to music while I’m on the go.

But I started thinking, what if we all spent a day without iPods or other music players crammed into our ears? What would happen?

Maybe instead of running away from our world by short-circuiting one of our senses, we could stop to appreciate it. Or at least acknowledge it.

We could all hear the sounds of the world around us for a change. We’d have a new appreciation for the people in our world. We could hear someone saying, “Excuse me” as they are trying to get by us. We might have a conversation with someone we wouldn’t normally talk to.”

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Photographed near Boulder Colorado

Two groups that we’ve always liked are SEVA Foundation and Save The Children. We try to offer what we can and to be consistent. Being a photographer, I really like the Sight programs at Seva, they help people in 3rd world nations regain the ability to see. Vision is a gift I’ve always deeply appreciated, and the ability to help even one other person to experience this is a deeply profound opportunity.

SEVA

 Save The Children

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Continuing the series of annual report portraits I photographed this year for a human services client. Joy went through addictions, and homelessness, and now she, her husband and two sons live together in a safe and comfortable apartment, moving toward a stable, balanced life.

Sitting on this woman’s couch after the shoot, sharing a cup of tea together, it was very touching to see how far she had come.
I’ll be posting more from this project, stay tuned.

Click the thumbnail to see the photo full size, you can read Joy’s story. Working with non-profits and foundations to better peoples lives is important to me, and a way I can give back.

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We photographed the portraits for this annual report this year. This human services group helps provide people a chance for change to get beyond difficult life experiences, prison, homelessness,drug addictions. The people we photographed are changing their lives for the better.

Working with non-profits and foundations to better peoples lives is important to me, and a way I can give back.

These days it’s a wonderful, rare opportunity to work on a paper piece, beautifully printed and designed by an exceptional art director like Corbet Curfman. Corbet’s firm is Riverbed, here in Seattle.

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From athletes to rock stars, world class sports performance trainer Mike Seilo trains a diverse clientele.

In this video, we see his clients, pro basketball players from Korea experiencing the BAM performance tests, the same test procedure used by the NBA for their draft athletes. Mike uses these tests to reference and improve his clients power-strength-speed-agility.

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Exactly one year ago we broke a record for the warmest November day on record since 1969. Here’s my short film/haiku for that day, “Sunny Day In November”

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Steve Isaac conntacted me to do a series of videos to launch his new product, the TouchFire, a beautifully engineered keyboard for the iPad. I was excited with the challenge and set to work with him and the designer Brad Melmon to create compelling videos that would inspire and explain.

They have funded their project in just 5 days and it is blasting through the roof. The videos are communicating the message and the product is, well, very cool and in demand.
You can pre-order at their Kickstarter site http://TouchFire.com, or use the blue link below to learn more.

Aspen Leaves in a mountain stream, Santa Fe

Mountain stream
Floating down leaves
One by one the journey continues
One is caught in a spin

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During a mountain hike in Santa Fe these Aspen leaves were pooling during their journey downstream. Stay tuned for the short film coming soon.