Website redesign and new photography

July 28, 2018

Hi everyone,

I've changed up the way my website is structured and I believe it's much better suited to the way I do photography. All photography projects, large and small, will be located on the home page with easy access to each of the galleries.

To kick off the new design, I've added a few new projects and will be adding more soon..

La Morada is a series of images of an old church in Taos, New Mexico. I fell in love with Taos on a recent trip there. I'll be adding more images to another gallery soon.

Tall Ships is another short project documenting the incredible ships (and crowds) that showed up to watch them recently in Galveston.

Tree Silhouettes is an ongoing project. I just love taking these pictures.

I hope you enjoy the new look to the site and the new photo projects. Thanks for taking a look and stay tuned for updates.

John

Counting Pelicans

August 15, 2017

Thursday, August 17th marks 2 years since my mom passed away. The following is a small project that was inspired by her.

Years ago something was disclosed to me that would forever change my life.
The conversation went something like this.

I was sitting outside at a beach house talking with one of the brightest and funniest people I have ever known. It was a beautiful evening and lots of birds were flying overhead on their way to their nighttime roosts. The person I was sitting with suddenly stopped talking and pointed at a group of pelicans flying overhead.

Confidently she said "You know... Pelicans ALWAYS fly around in odd numbers."
I looked at her a bit confused, not believing what I was hearing. "That can't be true."
"But it is, See that group over there? Seven. That one over there. Three."
"How do they know to fly around like that?" I asked
"They just do," she said

For the next half hour or so, we counted the numbers of pelicans flying together. Sure enough, quite a few of the groups had odd numbers, but there were almost just as many with even numbers. When I pointed out the even number groups, she would spin around in her chair and say something like,

"Well, you see those three over there? They're part of the same group, now they're an odd number."

She had a logical reason for every group that was even and she was very convincing. I knew that she was just having some fun with me, but that made it more fun. This was typical for her sense of humor, I never knew when she was plotting a joke or something.

Unfortunately, she'll never know how that moment in time has stayed with me and will stay with me forever. I continue to count Pelicans to this day. Odd numbers or even, it doesn't really matter anymore. Counting pelicans is now my way of remembering my mom and her incredible sense of humor.

Harvest Moon Regatta

March 27, 2017

The camera can be really good at capturing a moment in time. Some times, that moment may be a fraction of a second, other times, it takes longer to capture the mood of the moment. Watching the Harvest Moon Regatta saunter by.

Containers

January 17, 2017

This is sort of a continuation of my previous post about my first helicopter ride. Basically more pictures.

Flying above everything obviously gives you a new perspective on all kinds of things. Something I noticed was how much stuff was out there to hold other stuff. We've got containers for everything.

First Helicopter Ride

January 16, 2017

It's been a long time since I've posted anything on this blog. 348 Days to be exact. I believe that's probably a little too long between posts.

Anyway, I got to take my very first Helicopter ride not to long ago. Thanks to my good neighbor and friend Russ Mullins for the invite. Some of his aerial photos and other great artwork can been seen on his website http://www.russmullinsgallery.com/

This was my first time doing any type of aerial photography and I hope it's not my last. Flying along in a helicopter with the doors off is quite the rush. A totally different experience than I had imagined. Here's a few photos from the ride.