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.
The Effects of Trauma
This gallery contains 7 photos.
Two speakers in UCSB Arts & Lectures program, pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and columnist/writer/activist Nicholas Kristof, had a common thread in their presentations: the negative impact of poverty and the resulting traumas on health and wellbeing. Dr. Harris has been a pioneer in the treatment of toxic stress in…
A Long Way from the Prairie
This gallery contains 4 photos.
Multi Grammy-winner Joyce DiDonato was born in a suburb of Kansas City, but once she got a taste of opera while attending Wichita State University there was no looking back. A lyric coloratura mezzo soprano who sings with uncommon beauty, passion and a dash of humor, she has established herself…
Delusions of Beauty?
This gallery contains 15 photos.
Dance, like most art, is partly an endeavor to delude, a kind of illusion, making something that appears to be sublime out of movements that are extremely hard to perform and often require distortions of what is natural for a body to do. Kalopsia, a Greek word that literally means beautiful…
Essential Sings Like Hell
This gallery contains 11 photos.
There have been plenty of bands, stars and future stars, but a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar has been a mainstay of Peggie Jones’s Sings Like Hell, often someone you’ve never heard before. The April show featured a 2 man iteration of Tender Mercies with Patrick Winningham filling the guitar…