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WehnSo this Sunday I heard late in the day that it was World Pinhole Photo day, and I thought I'd like to give it a try. I had made several pinhole cameras in my youth, loading and shooting paper negatives, 4x5 film and the like, but it had been years. I thought it would be fun to try it with digital. Since I have a digital SLR it was pretty simple to replace the lens with a pinhole. Here's how I

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One of the current trends in wedding photography is photographers creating albums and press-printed books with gorgeous layouts of the photos at different sizes. The appealing results look more like magazine pages than traditional wedding albums, and most brides love them. Photographers love them too because it gives us more creativity to tell the story graphically, and they look great! The

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Merry Christmas everyone! As my gift to you, please download any of these pictures to use as wallpaper on your computers. For best resolution, click on each photo to display it's larger size, then right click "save image as" to your hard disk, and add to your wallpaper via the control panel. Enjoy!

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In this recent wedding I managed to find the time to shoot in a reportage style that allowed for the spirit of the day to be revealed. Seven hours of shooting yielded more than 600 images captured. Thanks to Adobe Lightroom, I could process all those photos while making creative choices along the way. The final cut presented to the bride was just over 400. I'm happy to say she's thrilled with

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The Girls, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Took this picture of my daughter and her friend last year on a trip to Southern California. To me it symbolizes both their connection to each other and to the natural world.Photo by Seattle area photographer, Jeff Speigner. See Seattle area wedding photographs at jeffspeigner.com

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Natasha and Kyle are getting married today and they've chosen me to record their nuptials with photographs. It should be a great shoot, as they're a lovely couple, and fun to work with. The photos above are from an engagement session this summer taken in the front yard of the brides' mothers' house. It was a slightly overcast day, making for diffuse lighting that I added to with a little flash

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Taken on my recent trip to Guatemala, this group of images gives a glimpse of the scenic beauty in the Lake Atitlan area. The first shot taken on the first morning just outside my hotel room at La Posada de Santiago. The volcano, San Pedro, is one of three that surrounds Santiago Atitlan. The second is a mother and son returning from washing clothes on the lake shore. Three is of a man in

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This second series of Antigua postcard images presents images that worked better in vertical format. The parrots were seen in the courtyard of the Hotel Santo Domingo, a converted colonial period convent. The reflections of the colorful window glass in the patio with the antique table in the foreground was seen outside my hotel room at Hotel San Jorge. The statue of the woman is a detail of the

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On my recent trip to Guatemala I spent a couple days in Antigua . I was so charmed by all the color and texture that I couldn't help making this admittedly "travel brochurish" post. The people were friendly, the weather was perfect, the food was awesome, and the expenses were very reasonable. Kinda makes me want to start planning my next trip there.

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I had the good fortune to be in Santiago Atitlan this past weekend and witness the way the local folks observe All Souls Day. It seems the whole town comes to the local cemetary starting around 6 p.m. for an evening of hanging out with each other and the dearly departed. The graves have all been spruced up; the rich cement graves repainted, the dirt mounds covered with grasses, and all heaped

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FotoFrame2, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Found this little charmer running across the school yard at Wat Bo primary school in SIem Reap, Cambodia.Decided to have some fun by experimenting with edge effects, filters, and brushes from myPhotoshopBrushes.com

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The Rider, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Riding a bike that's bigger than he is, this young Khmer boy passes by Sra Sreng, or Royal Bathing Pool. He is on his way to school in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.

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Pals, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Kids love to pose. These boys are at Wat Bo School in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The largest school in the province, Wat Bo accomodates 4000 kids in two shifts, morning and afternoon. It is a large campus with several buildings the size of the one in the background.

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Children at Koh Ker, originally uploaded by inspiritu.One of my all-time favorite images, this was shot on New Years eve 2007. My partner and I had come to Cambodia to meet Lori Carlson and Ponheary Ly and document the work they're doing enabling education for 2000 very poor children in Siem Reap province.On our first day with them, they drove us three and a half hours to visit the little school

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Ponheary Ly and Children, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Survivor of the Khmer killing fields, Ponheary Ly secretly learned three foreign languages and eventually became a middle school teacher. She is committed to the next generation having the knowledge it needs to make intelligent decisions and avoid abuses such as those she and her family suffered.Now a highly respected tour guide, Ponheary

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Lori Dressing Children at Koh Ker, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Lori Carlson of Austin Texas dresses children of Koh Ker village in donated clothing brought by tourists. Koh Ker Village is a very poor, and remote village in Northwestern Cambodia. It was built just a few years ago on property that had to be cleared of land mines before construction could begin.Lori is president of the Ponheary

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On a Mission, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Earlier this year I had the great fortune to meet an amazing woman. Lori Carlson, President of the Ponheary Ly Foundation gave, up a management career with a large printing company to devote her full energies running this non-profit foundation that enables education for some of the poorest kids in Siem Reap province.Working with Ponheary Ly, a

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Napping Cyclo Driver, originally uploaded by inspiritu.This may not be the most graphically stunning shots in my portfolio, but it's one of my favorites because of the mood. I love the idea of taking a break from work in the afternoon and stringing up a hammock to catch a few Zs. My darlin' and I were walking up the street from the Royal Museum in Phnom Pehn one hot afternoon and encountered this

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6005_232, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Anyone familiar with riding the three-wheeled Cushman scooters in Asia called Tuk Tuks should recognize this scene. Just about midnite on a New Years eve a couple years ago, I took one from Khao San Road to Chinatown where I was staying. Setting my shutter speed to a half second I managed to capture some of the thrill and movement of such a ride.

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0104_1620_Crossing, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Very early in the morning (it was still dark) after our first night in Varanasi, our guide met us with his car to drive us to the waters edge for a boat tour along the sacred Ganges. The driver flew down the dark streets and back alleyways swerving to miss dogs and little old ladies preparing for the day. Once on the river a drizzle ensued but

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Companions, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Sitting in a fabric shop on a side street in Pushkar, India I sat idly while my daughter shopped to her hearts content. To pass the time in the sticky monsoon heat I watched life outside the shopkeepers doorway. I occasionally fired off a shot when something caught my eye. All I had to work with was an Olympus point-and-shoot 35mm. I had no immediate

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Two Monks, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Unquestionably my favorite saffron robed monk picture to date. After spending an hour or so waiting for the fabled perfect light of afterglow to illuminate the facade of Ankor wat, I exited to the frenzied scene of mass traffic heading back to Siem Reap. As my driver and I crossed the road, these two floated gracefully through the mayhem. With the

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6021_064, originally uploaded by inspiritu.The first time I visited the capitol of Cambodia, I was immediately fascinated by all of the movement and energy there. I'd just come from the smaller, quieter town of Battambang so the excitement was very welcome and entertaining. To capture the feeling, I positioned myself on a busy street corner, set my shutter speed to a half a second and started

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6025_059, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Wandering the alleyways near the central market in Can Tho I encountered this bunch of friends shooting the breeze at the end of the day. Can Tho is very busy town located on the Mekong delta. Finding this quiet moment bathed in the soft evening light was irresistible.Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.6025_059

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Mother Daughter, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Chinatown in Bangkok has an amazing market sprawled out over many blocks of street and alleyways. Vendors sell everything from dried fish to jewelery. After wandering around for a couple hours on a steamy hot day, I encountered this scene of a mother tending her business as her teenage daughter talks to her. Always a sucker for found typography, I

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Downtown Siem Reap, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Siem Reap Cambodia is a modern-day boomtown. Near the famous temples of Angkor which once comprised the capital of the vast Khmer empire, this small town hosted just over 1 million visitors in 1997. With the rapidly growing tourism industry traffic, Siem Reap is a bustling place.This photograph was made late one afternoon in January when

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Reflections Chong Kneas, originally uploaded by inspiritu.One of my all time favorite photographs, this one came about in a way that I find often in my work. While taking a boat from near Siem Reap to Battambang we passed through the floating village of Chong Kneas. Sitting on the roof of the small boat I had a pretty good view of the colorful life on the water. We were moving along at a fair

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6008_151, originally uploaded by inspiritu.One afternoon in Bangkok I encountered this moody scene of passengers waiting for the next river taxi to stop. What first struck me was how the setting sun provides both a scene for the figures in the photograph to be looking at and dramatic lighting to add interest to those same folks.

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6020_028, originally uploaded by inspiritu.Taking one of the dreadfully early morning boats from Chong Kneas to Battambang I looked up to see this scene passing in front of me. Instinctively I raised the camera and fired off the frame. Looking immediately at the screen, it was clear that a colorful moment had be captured. It wasn't until later when printing the image that there was a poignant

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