Last summer I promised myself to photograph the final space shuttle launch. Not only was it to be a historic event, and the last of its kind, but I can probably generalize here and say that every kid born under the influence of gravity will do whatever it takes to watch stuff shoot into the [...]
Phew! Just got back last night from a commercial shoot in France & Switzerland (as well as spending a couple weeks of personal time in Norway, Paris, Andermatt, & Como), which was just the first of three stages on as many continents. I fly out again Monday morning for stage 2 in Oregon, then stage [...]
The only artwork above my office desk is a small print from one of my greatest inpirations, Bradford Washburn, whose accomplishments spanned the fields of photography, mountaineering, cartography, and science (making him an instant hero in my book . However, he is perhaps best known for his richly-toned black & white aerial images from the great mountain ranges [...]
Norway doesn’t have a lot of flat terrain, so people have to travel for hundreds or even thousands of miles to visit the rare exception and have a picnic, even if that spot is as small and exposed as Preikestolen, located in Lysefjorden (near Stavanger). With sheer 2,000′ drops to the fjord on three sides you [...]
On the roof of Oslo’s new billion-dollar opera house.