FRP Journal

  • A Room with a View

    Room 2601 & 2 – Hilton Bayfront, San Diego, CA

  • 2011 Bad News Bears

    I can’t believe it’s over already…It seems like just a couple of days ago we met on the field and introduced ourselves all around.  Some of the boys knew each other and some had never met.  Some had even played together on various teams already.  This year they would come together as the Bad News Bears.  They gelled as a team immediately.  They had fun and played hard.  I agreed over a year ago to take a team.  I wanted my son’s last season of Little League Baseball to be a good one.  It’s a magical time in a boy’s life.  It was for me and I wanted the same for my oldest son.  Somewhere between fantasy and reality, where you can still live the dream…
    I present here the 2011 Point Loma Little League Brigantine Bad News Bears!

    Frank

    Cole

    Brendan

    Mitchell

    Evan

    Micheal

    Issiah

    JD

    Nick the Stick

    Shane

  • Totally Rad BMX Images

    You be the judge…Rad, or not so Rad.

    I’ll give you a hint, as if you needed one…

    They were all shot with the Hipstamatic I-phone app….So they Must be AWESOME!

  • Inspection – Final Inspection

  • Rolling through S. Central CA

    Recently took a drive through South Central California.
    Makes me wonder what one would have found on a similar trek 100, 200, 1000 years ago.

  • ASMP San Diego Newsletter

    Profile and Feature Interview from the 2010 4th Quarter ASMP San Diego Newsletter.
    Click to download the full PDF.

  • Early Influences

    Been looking at some of the photographers that influenced me when I first started out – Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Walker Evans, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ralph Gibson, Clarence John Laughlin.  Frank, Klein, and Evans still resonate for me.  Gibson, not so much anymore.  Meatyard, Laughlin & Cartier-Bresson are great, just not as influential any more.
    Who were your influences?

    Which early influences still resonate for you?

    William Klein – Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1954-55

    Robert Frank – Trolley—New Orleans, 1955 from The Americans

    Walker Evans –   Fish Market Near Birmingham, Ala., 1936

    Henri Cartier-Bresson – Behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932

    Ralph Gibson – The Somnambulist, 1970

    Clarence John Laughlin – The Masks Grow to Us 1947

    Ralph Eugene Meatyard – Occasion for Diriment, 1962

  • An Honest Days Work…

    We shot another ad earlier in the week for CA Bank & Trust and their “They Had Me at Hello” campaign.
    This time we worked with the great folks at PKL who service helicopters for the Military.

    Here are some behind the scenes shots of the PKL guys plying their trade.

  • Plastic Fantastic

    I’m honored to have had all 4 of my entries selected for APA/SD’s Plastic Fantastic Exhibition and Benefit Auction.  Juror Joseph Bellows of Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla selected 30 images that will be hung in a one night ONLY show at Subtext Gallery on Friday Sept. 3rd, 6-10PM.  All images will be sold to the highest bidder with an auction that night to benefit the AJA Project, a San Diego based non-profit that utilizes photography-based educational programs to transform the lives of displaced youth.  Come on by and check out some killer prints made from plastic cameras and an ancient plastic based material called film.  Who knows, maybe you’ll leave with a great print.  And it’s all for a good cause…Here’s one of the images that was selected for the exhibition.  You’ll have to come to the show next Friday to see my other 3 and the 29 other prints.  See you there!

  • Summer in Chicago – Public Art

    I hadn’t been back to Chicago since Millenium Park had been developed.  What a treat!  What I love about Chicago…One of the many things I love about Chicago is the public art.  From the new works in Millenium Park, to the awesome Giant Eyeball on the Loop, to the oft imitated (and long gone) Cows on Parade, I love it all!  Chicago does public art like few other cities, especially in N. America.  The above image is one of my favorites from our tour of some of Chicago’s best current public art.  It is The Crown Fountain by artist Jaume Plensa.  While I love my image and think it stands on it’s own it does not do justice to this amazing interactive fountain-sculpture-gargoyle…It truly has to be seen, and experienced.  It is what public art should be: beautifully crafted, great to look at and interactive.  You want to be drawn in and The Crown Fountain (along with the Giant Eyeball) certainly did.