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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Pointed and Fiery Oratory
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Tawakkol Karman, journalist, activist and the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, doesn’t mince words when it comes to women’s rights, democracy and human rights. She has spent many years on the front lines in the fight for freedom and dignity for the women of Yemen and the global south,…
Sisterly Love?
This gallery contains 10 photos.
Well, not exactly! Poor Cinderella; she’s got 2 of the worst stepsisters in the history of fairytales. Of the thousands of variants from around the world on the story of a heroine who goes from terrible circumstances to exceedingly good fortune, the one that is named for the girl in rags and…
Train of Thought
This gallery contains 12 photos.
Colson Whitehead is a writer of daring and provocative fiction and his subjects have ranged from dystopia to coming-of-age to zombies. The history of the “underground railroad” is fraught with a lot of misinformation but Mr. Whitehead ingeniously used one bit of it to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. The alternative fact in…
A Requiem to Remember
This gallery contains 11 photos.
The Brahms German Requiem has rarely been performed in Santa Barbara, but it was given its full and lush due by the Santa Barbara Choral Society in the expansive First Presbyterian Church. This beautiful work is, unusually for a requiem, non-liturgical and sung in German rather than Latin, reflecting Brahms’s…
