I’ve been shooting an article for Session magazine for the last couple of months, it’s a feature on Bergen Nielson.  While out and about on a Sunday afternoon, searching for spots we came across this bank to wall thingy.  I didn’t get a shot of Bergen on it but instead, Sam Khumalo…  Rather large wall ride to fakie!

Barack Obama was recently in San Francisco for one of his dinner ‘fund raiser’ things.  There were a lot of angry people out front of the hotel, holding up some offensive banners and getting in arguments with other people that had different views to theirs.  We stood around the other side of the hotel where the more ‘mellow’ people were standing, in hope of a glimpse of the president.  I didn’t get to see him, well, not until later on that is.  It just so happened that he was leaving the hotel as I was walking back down this way later that evening and I got a glimpse of him driving by in his limo, followed by many cops on bikes and in cars, it was really something to see.  This picture is of one of the banners that were being held up out front of the hotel.  I got the feeling they didn’t like Barack Obama too much.  I shot this with my Contax G1 film camera.

Nosy Be island is a small, tropical island off the northern shores of Madagascar.  I recently went there on my honeymoon.  It’s a crazy place!  Most of it’s inhabitants probably survive on just a couple bucks a day and live in very poor conditions.  Most residential areas are made up of shacks and old broken down buildings.  It was strange to be staying in a 4 Star hotel and just outside the gates, people had nothing.  I couldn’t help but feel guilty everytime we returned from a day trip and saw these kids playing soccer in the field.  I walked down to them one day and tried to communicate with them but no such luck, absolutely NO English.  Pictures are definitely the universal language.

The fisherman of Nosy Be island in Madagascar are pretty crazy!  They row these boats out into the ocean with the unpredictable weather and storm clouds on their tails…  Seas can get rough and a crazy storm could hit at any moment!  They fish for a living and for their families, there’s not much left in these seas, forcing them to go further and further away from the shore line.  Nosy Be is about 30km’s north off the coast of Madagascar, you can actually see it in the backround of the 1st picture.

These are some of my favorite shots I took of the guys in studio.

I shot this picture of Jon’s foot a couple years back while waiting for the train in Sacramento, we were on our way back from Lake Tahoe in Northern California, headed for San Francisco.  It was such a fun trip!  I love riding on trains!

Gavin let me use his lights to shoot this picture.  We bagan shooting from the other side until he fell and hit his head.  Sorry Gavin.

I recently took some pictures for these guys in a friends studio.  I’m pretty sure this is one of my favorites.

I’m pretty sure these guys are my favorite band in South Africa.  They rock so check em out!

This is JJ, he takes pictures and films skate videos.  His photography is really cool.  I shot this portrait of him at one of his galleries a while back.