It’s been a pretty manic month or two with my first time outside NZ since 2019. Almost all my focus has been on family time and now I’m off to Burning Man, so for the next week or two I’ll share some of my Fine Art images and their story rather than new/unpublished images. That should allow you to prepare your brain for the deluge of Burning Man 2022 image awesomeness in September. Hopefully you won’t have seen some of these before or if you have, hopefully your eyeballs will appreciate them anyway. 🙂

“The Impossible Library”

This library holds more secrets than I am willing to share. The secrets are so good, in fact, they would absolutely ruin the photo if you knew them. This is the dangerous nature of secrets, right? I suggest you don’t try to discover them to save yourself the disappointment.

Tianjin, China

(Fun fact… this is a Google Pixel image. It had to be worked quite hard to get it ready for fine art printing at a decent size but it held up well and collectors LOVE it!)

Fine Art

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2018-06-13 13:53:19
• CameraPixel 2 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture1.8
• ISO158
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

No, this is not product placement for the Google phone! I just love this thing so much and I think it’s fun to share photos with it. It’s not as awesome as my Sony, but, honestly, 99% of the general public who knows nothing about cameras would see very little difference, if any.

Lighthouse with the Pixel 4 phone

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2018-01-08 17:43:38
• CameraPixel 2 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/450
• Aperture1.8
• ISO50
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I don’t often do staged shots, but I did this time! I was at this amazing library in Tianjin with Curtis and one of the ladies from the Ritz-Carlton. I thought the photo would look better with a person in there pretending to read a book, and it does! It was pretty funny because in the first take we realized the book was upside down.

Curious Lady at the Library

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2018-06-13 15:04:02
• CameraPixel 2 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/180
• Aperture1.8
• ISO50
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

When we went to the crazy library in Tianjin, we decided to have some fun and do some posed shots. That Curtis there on the right and the lady on the left was one of the ladies from the Ritz-Carlton that brought us here. She is probably the most giggly person I have ever met in my life. Literally, anything I would say or do would make her giggle uncontrollably. But, I actually like this quality in people… I like when they laugh at my jokes even when they make absolutely no sense.

Having Fun in the Library

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• Date Taken2018-06-13 14:42:28
• CameraPixel 2 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/120
• Aperture1.8
• ISO197
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

This library was both amazing and confusing, in more ways than one. I spent about three hours inside of here taking all sorts of photos. They would not let me use my “big boy” camera, so I had to use my Pixel 2 phone. But hey, I must say, that Pixel 2 phone is pretty incredible. Now I’m using the Pixel 3, and it’s even better!

Checking out Books in the Tianjin Library

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• Date Taken2018-06-13 14:50:43
• CameraPixel 2 XL
• Camera MakeGoogle
• Exposure Time1/120
• Aperture1.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias