Three days in country now and I already get a warm feeling thinking about this place.  It may be the warm coffee in my belly or the warm smiles from all the kids, but also probably from my growing fondness...

Oscar Bonilla has curly hair and a mustache, and wears Fila's. He has two cell phones and really long fingernails, which I never asked him about. Oscar moved to Belize from his home in El Salvador 18 years ago when he...

I spent the day shooting with the band Do it to Julia on Saturday and had a blast.  They had several scenes with themes in mind and we went at it.  The top one is my favorite, but the rest...

These are some HDR portraits we did today.  Amazing how you can make someone look so devious with post-processing tweaks.  Here is a screen shot of some of the adjustments I did in Photomatix.  Here's some other info so I...

i get the question all the time:  "Paul, how do I take a picture to make a person look cooler than they actually are?" Find a model that isn't cool Create a dark and gloomy atmosphere by darkening out the background...

The first crop I made of this image looks like blood to some, obvi it's wine, right??  Maybe not, I made a different crop, to include the bottles in the shot.  It's seems a little more distracting to me, and...

Can’t play outside? Want to avoid movie overload? Keep yourself entertained and explore your creative side, take pictures, why not?

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Spent the evening yesterday with Doc Hendley of Wine to Water doing a photoshoot for a story that a mag is running on him.  Used my ringlight and a few SB-800 strobes for the dark super-hero like look.  Doc was...

I’m chillin’ in china waiting on some gifts to arrive (65,000 to be exact) so i went around the town of Chengdu. These are some of the things i found interesting…

cab jail

hotel bull

pretty fountain

china cube world, kinda like my cube world...but more pandas

he thinks he's a big dog

at least the people in the car are happy

big plants, little bike

kingsize

baby basket, or BB for short

her job is to clean street poles

i read it to say, "CHINA TOWN"

i think it's a fake ID

precariously lazy positioning

that wouldn't be very comfortable for me

i hear ya buddy

lighted nighted and delighted

da streets

hour and a half massage, 6 bucks

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In south Sudan I got the chance to visit Harvester's Orphanage.  It was started in 2001 by Dennis and Lillian Klepp after being compelled by the Spirit of God from hearing a message about the plight of the orphans and...