I wrote this little dissertation about a year ago and read it again recently. It spoke to me and I decided to post it...maybe it will speak to someone else too. Sometimes I get these moments in time where I...

Just coming to the end of editing down 4000 images from Colombia, and decided to post a couple of my favs. I feel like my preference and style change by the year.  It could be my influences or it could...

More of a pre-test pre-review.  Being a big fan of wireless slave flashes, I was looking for a cheap alternative to the 180 buck-a-pop pocket wizards.  Paul C. Buff in all his alien weirdness continues to put out solid affordable...

A few months back I did a photo shoot with Wine to Water's Doc Hendley for an article to be published in Relevant Magazine.  I tried to give it that edgy Relevant look that they are into.  They ended up...

"Jonathan, how far to the next distribution?"  I said.  "No more than 20 minutes." He responded.  A long nap and 2 hours later we were still driving.  When I arrived at a girls school in the far outskirts of Bogotá...

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...

Good buddy Darren Sheely is working on a photo project in which he photographs intimate portraits of his friends.  My turn was up last week, so we took a little walk downtown with my dog Jeb to get these shots. ...

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...