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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A Haunting Journey
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Piano Trio in E Minor was written in 1944 after news of the Holocaust reached the USSR, which had a profound effect on the composer. The piece is a lamentation for the victims of that tragedy, and for the death of a close friend. Shostakovitch employed scales and…
A Whole Heap of Baddies
This gallery contains 23 photos.
Shakespeare’s “King Lear” has got the three m’s in spades–murder, mayhem and madness–but I’d forgotten how many truly despicable characters populate this searing tragedy. Perhaps it’s because the ending is so moving that it pushes aside all the preceding awful behavior in the old memory banks. Sure, I remembered the…
Falling Into Place
This gallery contains 16 photos.
Will it tell a story or be more like a music album with different numbers, perhaps bound by a theme? All the pieces are worked out and now Kate and Esteban are turning their attention to putting them together to make an evening’s entertainment. Some of the elements fulfill the dream of…
We Weren’t in Uzbekistan
This gallery contains 11 photos.
Samarkand, which translates from Persian to “hearts desire,” is one of the oldest cities in central Asia and was an important stop along the Silk Road. Its namesake in Santa Barbara has a long and storied history going from a cattle ranch to a posh boys’ school to a luxury resort named the…
