The towns of the Central San Joaquin Valley are mainly rural, farming communities with long, rich heritages of many cultures and groups of people.  I have always been interested in looking at and wandering through some of these small, valley towns, especially the old downtown areas.  Scattered throughout much of my work are these sorts [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I have a friend that is a machinist here locally and he has been good enough to let me photograph the shop where he works.  I have been in there once, exploring and shooting, but have only made it through about a third of the place.  This is an old shop, with all sorts of [...]

What was once lost is now found!  Some of you may know that several months ago I lost one of my hard drives (no, not everything had been back-up, but that is another story) and had little hope of recovering the files according to the local computer gurus.  Fortunately one of the computer guys at [...]

I have been working to have several images ready for both our Youth Missions Auction and the MCC West Coast Relief Sale and Auction.  WHile some of these may look familiar, I have been working with the Nik Plug-ins to just tweak things a bit.  Anyway, here are three of the images that you might see at the Sale if [...]

I am giving another short talk on MCC in Bolivia this coming Sunday and wanted to re-work some photos, delete some that I used in the previous talk, and add some additional shots. I have also been working with more of the Nik plug-ins for Photoshop.  So, just to stay in practice and to post [...]

Josh Bradley and I headed out Saturday morning to shoot wildflowers, remembering the old adage that the worst day fishing is better than the best day working, or in our case the worst day photographing… you get the picture.  Well, here is the perfunctory flower photo cause that is about all we found.  As you can see [...]

These images were shot in the machine shop of the German Mennonite Colony we visited outside of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.  The amazing thing about this place is the finished products that were created in this shop, including the making of some of the machines.  I am really excited about seeing these images printed in black [...]

Welcome back to my site.  I know, I know.  It has been down for quite some time and to be truthful I am still really learning how to do all of this stuff with of course, help from my good friend Josh Bradley (at least as long as I don’t wear our my welcome).  And, [...]