Cameras and helicopters are just made for each other. The perspective is unusual, the possible shooting positions are endless and you can move to several different locations within seconds. When you’re in the air with a camera, the pictures almost make themselves. Most of my recent aerial photography work has been of golf courses for […]
When I think of some of the most significant events of the last fifty years, I always imagine the still image of the event. Even when there is video or film from the event, the still image seems to capture the essence and emotion and tension in a way that a moving picture rarely does. […]
Life is like a workshop. I’ve never really thought about it that way before, but the value you receive from a photography workshop is often still paying dividends years and years after the workshop has ended—very much the way one’s childhood, education or other experience can only be truly valued with the benefit of hindsight. […]
Have you ever met someone who you just knew had that little extra that you wish you had? That indescribable quality of brilliance, eccentricity, style, and a mild disdain for the rest of us mere mortals? I have too. His name is Richard Helmstetter. Helmstetter is a genius, for sure. If you’re into golf, he’s […]
When I was a teenager, I worked in a liquor store that sold what might be called picture magazines. They weren’t magazines in the great tradition of Life or National Geographic or Sports Illustrated, but magazines in the great tradition of those wrapped in plastic. One in particular had some great creative writing and almost […]
A photographer emailed me last week and said that he’d noticed that I was planning to write about shooting from a helicopter—something he wanted to know more about because he knew that it’s usually done with the door to the helicopter removed. But, he was also wondering what the scariest thing I’d ever done with […]
