Ramblin’ Jack

Shot of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott at the new Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

Salty

Went with some friends to the Great Salt Plains national park in far north west Oklahoma a few days ago. The salt deposits were left over from a pre-historic sea and continue to replenish when salty, very shallow groundwater continually evaporates depositing its salt on the surface. We went in hopes of finding some selenite crystals which result from the process, but there wasn’t much crystal action, and a local crystal hunter said that the continuing drought was to blame. So, we walked around and shot photos and played in the mud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winter break

So, yesterday it was 65 degrees here in Oklahoma City, today it’s snowing. Anyway, my son and I went to a local lake to enjoy the weather. I also took along a bag of old bread to feed the marauding gulls, thus further encouraging marauding gulls.

Oh joy.

 

In many ways this epitomizes both.

Dust Ball

 

Love the yellow.

Poet Lauren

I recently got to shoot photos of the inimitable Lauren Zuniga, poet extraordinaire for the 30 Days 30 Photos Oklahoma promotion. We shot a lot of photos, and Lauren was amazing, even with all the junk I brought into her house. The first shot is the one we used for the promotion, and the rest are outtakes.

Backstage Pass: Aerosmith

Shot Aerosmith for a new section of The Wall Street Journal called “Backstage Pass.” The idea is that you get to be behind the scenes, not the regular coverage, so for this it was a sound check to an empty house. All super nice guys, all pros from the crew to the band.