This picture was taken at sunset somewhere on California’s Highway One north of San Francisco. It was an ordinary day when my wife and I decided to go for some coffee and a drive. We raced to the coast in order to see the sunset and arrived just in time…
I was having a bad day. I was down, discouraged, and afraid. The last thing I expected was to receive hope from the homeless. That evening I was to visit the local Veterans Administration Domiciliary, a place where once homeless veterans can live while they get counseling, clean up, find…
The other night I was meeting with a group of guys at the local Department of Corrections work release center and a bit of hard truth jumped up and bit me – changing one’s life is impossible without burning desire. Impossible. In some ways, the convict serving time after a…
Sitting here on a cold winter day, I was going through some pictures and recaptured a few fond memories of a warm fall day with the family at Mount Baldy. Mount Baldy is located in the Indiana Dunes National Seashore park. Traveling north through the flat cornfields of midwest Indiana,…
Oh the joys of wanderlust. When I lived in Northern California I loved to wander around the coast north of San Francisco. My trusty camera, a Nikon F3HP with its 50mm 1.4 lens (occasionally a 24mm 2.8 too) was always at my side. These two photos of abandoned automobiles are…
We spend years and millions of dollars training our troops to fight. We take young men and women, most of whom have never been trained to shoot, and teach them how to aim at a stranger and successfully kill them. Now that sounds harsh, but it is the truth. In…
