Photo of Three Leaf House by Sage Architecture

2011 Looking Forward

    I received an email from one of the photography associations I belong to, the Association of Independent Architectural photographers, http://www.aiap.net/, thanking everyone for all the reports of increasing business

NKBA Contest Winner

NKBA CA Capital Chapter Design Competition Winners

Here is some more work for 2010, that I did for clients who are members of the National Kitchen and Bath Association. One house also won in the NARI COTY awards! Its out door kitchen above. I love these groups contests. It’s a great way for their members to show their best projects and receive […]

COTY Winners!

I visited some of my clients last weekend at the Northern California Home & Landscape Expo and saw all the winning entries in the 2010 NARI Contractor of the Year Awards. Its gratifying to see my work help their work win recognition! Ten different projects I photographed were winners! Of course one of the tricks […]

Rebound? Upturn? Hope and Change?

A little past the middle of the year and it seems as if there is a rise in the ocean of the economy. My bookings are up, clients paying faster, and the telemarketers have a happy lilt in their voice, as if pickings are getting easier! I am shooting a project this month of a […]

Photo of Dining room by MAK in Davis

Epiphany…?

I had an epiphany yesterday, while watching a TV show in Hi Def on my laptop computer on the internet. Not a divine revelation, but the lessor definition, a sudden insight. And it was that my kids don’t watch TV. Not that they don’t watch video format entertainment, they do plenty of that, but not […]

Photo of Pressed paper counter tops

I have a Green Website!

I just found out in an email from the company that hosts my website, (www.fatcow.com  unlimited storage and bandwidth! for $66 per year), that I have a green website. Green as in all the electricity used to power the servers hosting my site are powered by wind energy! That of course does not make my […]

Photo of Outdoor dinning room by William Carter Contruction

A New Category..

When a photographer has a bit of time, its time to work on the portfolio/web page, and while I was looking through my recent shoots to find new content, I realized I also shoot landscape and garden. So now there is a page of things from the last couple years. Outdoor kitchens in their environment […]

Photo of Custom dining table by Phil Garcia

What to do in a Slow Economy?

Its obvious by now that the economy has taken the biggest down hill slide since the “Great Depression”. The Dow going from the 12,000 highs to 7,000’s today, mortgage money only lent to people actually qualified, and job seekers actually having to compete for jobs rather than be competed for! But those of us who […]

Photo of Baggage claim At Oakland Airport by YHLA

It’s The Economy

It’s the political season and once again, economic “crisis”. Why the quotes? Because life will go on. It always seems to. Change is constant and ups and downs of the economy are part of that. But what is more important is that “life”, that is going on, despite those things that hold our attention and […]

Older couple walking in Paris

Spring Time in Paris..

Twenty years of marriage deserves a bit of celebration, and so my wife and I went to Paris. Sometimes things are hyped and built up to be larger or more exciting than they are but that is not the case with Paris. It is truly a magnificent, sophisticated, beautiful city. Centuries of history and culture […]