What makes an exceptional photo?
Great Timing and an Eye for the Extraordinary!
The magic ingredients a photographer needs to go beyond the right equipment and knowing how to use it.
From the explosive energy of dance, to the drama and laughter of theater, to the spine-tingling emotional directness of music, the performing arts are among the most positive and compelling of human endeavors. My goal is to capture the essence of a performance and the moments that define performers and their art.
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Swing State
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The Santa Barbara Vocal Jazz Foundation has been running their VocalPoint program for 20 years, bringing “Journey Through Jazz” to Santa Barbara area schools for “…the education, preservation, performance and development of Vocal Jazz as an art form.” Students from elementary to high school ages are immersed in the history…
It’s Elemental
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National Geographic photographer James Balog has experienced the effects of climate change first-hand while documenting them, putting himself right in the middle of fires and flooding. His celebrated feature film “Chasing Ice” made use of time lapse photography over a period of many years to dramatically illustrate how much glaciers…
Rachmaninoff to the Fore
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Conductor, musician and Grammy Award Winner Mikhail Pletnev founded the Russian National Orchestra in 1990, a bold move considering it was the first privately funded ensemble in the history of Russia. A gathering of the finest musicians led by a consummate interpreter of the classical repertoire, they won a Grammy…
Immersion Therapy
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It makes a hard-to-beat combination, the joining of a glorious movie on a a huge screen with a live orchestra, and it harks back to the early days of cinema when silent films were accompanied by live music. The Santa Barbara Symphony has made this highly entertaining art form a…
