If you’re up near Mount Cook on the South Island of New Zealand and want a cool reflection shot, here’s a tip! There’s a big lodge there and if you start driving on the roads behind it that seem to go nowhere, eventually you’ll find this water treatment area. I know… I know you expected a lake. And, I suppose, it’s sort of a lake, even if it is man-made. Anyway, because it’s so small, there’s a good likelihood of getting a clean shot.

On the Way to Mount Cook

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• Date Taken2014-08-19 08:35:18
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/8
• Aperture6.3
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias+2

I don’t have a lot of photos of myself out in the field because, well, I don’t really want it to be about me. Does that make sense? Other people do that, and that’s fine… I just would rather remove myself from the visual equation. But, on this occasion, my friend Stu got a photo of me walking in front of the Taylor Glacier (I think that was the name?) in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.

Glacier Walk

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• Date Taken2015-01-17 10:34:49
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/125
• Aperture16
• ISO50
• Focal Length23.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Here’s a pretty view from when I took a workshop group up here one morning. The lake was like a huge mirror and perfectly still. I think we all walked around it a few times to get every possible angle. If you look over to the left, you can see, of all things, a North Korean prison. It was used for some terrible Disney movie decades ago. It’s since been demolished because people thought it was an eyesore, but I thought it was kinda cool!

Atop Deer Park Heights

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• Date Taken2014-04-30 09:26:57
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture16
• ISO125
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Somehow I talked my way into the cockpit of the LC-130 on the 10-hour flight to Antarctica. There was a lot to see up there! Thankfully, I brought my fish-eye lens, which is a lens I hardly ever use. I mean, like, hardly ever! I almost didn’t pack the thing… but there was no weight restriction, so I thought, why not? My why nots do not always pay off but this one did.

Flying to Antarctica

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• Date Taken2015-01-06 16:25:28
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture
• ISO125
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias+3.7

Well, I didn’t pull much of a crowd in Antarctica, but I did get 100% of the 10 people that were out at our remote science base. I don’t think they came because they were into photography; I think they came because they were incredibly bored. We walked around the Dry Valleys for a few hours then returned to the little science hut and pulled out a bunch of booze and then the party really started.

Photowalk in Antarctica

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• Date Taken2015-01-16 23:06:26
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/350
• Aperture9.5
• ISO250
• Focal Length23.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Here’s a new edit from Dubai that I recently threw together for that proposal in Hollywood. I’ve been focusing a bit more on cross-processing along with an emphasis on the 2:1 framing ratio.

Blade Runner

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• Date Taken2015-04-28 04:54:53
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time3.2
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

One evening in Pattaya I sneaked down through the jungle to get up close to this temple. It wasn’t quite open for public consumption yet, but I simply had to get a photo. I thought the outline of the thing was so epic, so I tried to focus on that in post.

Drama in Thailand

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• Date Taken2014-07-28 00:13:32
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/125
• Aperture7.1
• ISO160
• Focal Length10.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

I should really go back to PNG! I only spent a very small amount of time there, but I got so many interesting photos. I can’t say there is any place like it anywhere else in the world. The tribes and all their crazy costumes made it feel a lot like Burning Man. Well, a Burning Man where they will cut off your head instead of give you a hug… so I guess it’s a BIT different.

The Mudmen of Papua New Guinea

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• Date Taken2015-10-13 13:22:38
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/3200
• Aperture
• ISO200
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias-1

My first time in Papua New Guinea could not have been more crazy, and that’s saying a lot after leaving a week at Burning Man. I think the thing that made it the craziest was having Choppy there. I’m not exactly sure, but she seems to somehow inject a level of insanity into every situation. And I love it! I’ve figured out one simple thing I like from my friends… to surprise me! And she always does that! 🙂

Choppy Deep in Papua New Guinea

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• Date Taken2015-10-13 12:02:41
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/2000
• Aperture
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

My friend Chris Craker has an amazing music studio a bit south of Pattaya in Thailand in a little beach town called Bang Saray. I stayed here for about a week and it was cool to watch so many music artists at work together. I don’t really hang out around musicians… I’m kind of a loner artist on my own, so it was super interesting to watch how they all worked and collaborated together.

In Studio in Bang Saray

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• Date Taken2014-07-28 19:50:45
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1.6
• Aperture7.1
• ISO200
• Focal Length11.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias