Surfing with Dolphins

Surfing with the Dolphins

I’ve been fortunate to live near the ocean for the majority of my life. At the age of nine my family moved from inland to within a few miles of the…
Take That Spirograph!

Take That, Spirograph! Photoshop Illustration.

As a challenge, I was presented with a mechanical grid pencil drawing and asked simply to “transform” it. Such broad direction can either be intimidating (where do I go with…

Flat Stanley Goes Surfing

Have you ever heard of the Flat Stanley Project? Well, I hadn’t until a friend asked me to take Flat Stanley surfing as a favor to his young cousin in land-locked Missouri. Six to ten-year-old students…
Photo manipulation of big waves in Malibu

Staycation at Zuma 14

I created this photo montage for a co-op PacSun & Surfline.com Photoshop challenge. Traveling the world for perfect waves is fun, but you needn’t travel far when you live in southern…
Hurricane Rick bears down on Costa Azul 2009

Hurricane Odile Hits Home (away from home)

I’ve been visiting Los Cabos two to three times a year for the last decade. Both Carolyn and I had been there previously before we bought our little one bedroom…
East Cape highway

Let’s See Where This Goes

Hello, and welcome to my first journal entry. As I’m not particularly verbose, I hesitate to call this a blog. It’s more of a place where I’ll occasionally document my…