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Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 10:47AM 
A friend of mine gave this to me a few months ago. Last year Zimbabwe actually printed up a 100 Trillion Dollar note. Crazy. I scanned this in this morning, before the note gets damged. Kind of fun to see all of these zeros!!
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 03:12PM Nothing drives me more nuts is the expectation that what I do for a living is negotiable when it comes to what I deliver for a fee. You have less of a budget? That's totally ok and understantable, but 1) negotiating after services have been rendered or 2) expecting to get good quality work for very little money is completely whack.
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 04:23PM Somebody sent me this link. Something one doesn't see everyday while out in the bush.
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 10:38PM 
My friend Corbett Bishop passed away unexpectedly of natural causes in the early morning of May 2nd, 2009 at his home in Arusha, Tanzania. He was only 38 but he had lived a full and compelling life. He found his life's passion as a sixteen year old on his first travels to Africa. He returned to his passion in 1993 initially as a guide on Kilimanjaro and soon was changing and inspiring the lives of people from around the world with Corbett Bishop Safaris. The greatest adventure of his life was raising his 2 beautiful children Ella and Luca in his beloved Africa. Corbett lived a joyously full life through his soulful music, conservation and world travels, and his many friends and family.
Corbett will be remembered as a striving conservationist, professional hunter, mountain guide, man of letters, soulful musician, birder, friend, son, loving father and forever and truth seeker.
Corbett and I were making plans to do a photographic portrait project of the Maasai communities that he was in contact with, and I am sad that we won't be able to spend more time creating fun and exciting memories out in the bush in Tanzania. We will all miss him dearly.
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12:54PM Here is a short list of books, both educational and artistic, that I recommend. Some of the books below have helped fuel my passion for nature photography, as well as for tools that helped me along the way. I would love to hear any suggestions you might have, if I have left any 'gotta have' books off this list.
The Safari Companion by Richard Estes
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen Rowell
Inner Game of Outdoor Photography by Galen Rowell
Africa by Art Wolfe
The Living Wild by Art Wolfe
Broken Spears: A Maasai Journey by Elizabeth Gilbert
My Seregenti Years by Myles Turner
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
Africa by Sebastiao Salgado
Vanishing Africa by Mirella Ricciardi
The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl
Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 06:34AM You know, sometimes you just have to chuckle at what shows up da internets. I get a fair amount of emails with links to some funny web sites, and although most are not photography related there are a few that can be classified as relating to photography.
So here is some good 'photography' for some belly laughs.
Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 01:21PM Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 11:27PM I like to look back at my photographic journey every now and then, and why I am where I am today. I mean, I left a successful career in the software consulting industry, so why would I give up a steady job with a decent paycheck every 2 weeks? The question has many different answers for me, but the late Galen Rowell had a way of explaining why some climbers were better than others. It is all about the rat that lives inside of you.
"The phrase was coined by working class British climbers to account why some of them become so much more successful than others. The public believes that climbers who scale remote mountains, like published photographers must have greater inate talent and skill than their lesser companions, but this is not the case. The rat refers to the voracious creature gnawing at a person's stomach from the inside that drives him or her to repeatedly leave the comforts and security of civilized life to challenge him or herself in the natural world. Without a big rat, a person stays at home with the family and is content to be a shopkeeper."
-an exerpt from The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography by Galen Rowell
I realized that I had many different rats that lived inside of me. I knew that I had a desire for adventure in my life, and that I would go to my grave having regrets if this adventure rat wasn't fed. I had an inner voice that kept telling me that my life could be so much more than what it was at the time. I started my photographic safari business when I still had a full time job. I was working for a UK-based software company, and as a result I did have more vacation time than the average working American. I used this time off to my advantage, and in the beginning I spent all of my vacation time of 4 weeks in Africa each year. So I decided to lead 2 safaris each year, and this worked out very well for a few years. But the rat was getting bigger inside, and it needed to be fed. Fast forward a few years, and Leslie and I were expecting the birth of our baby boy. My travel schedule was extremely hectic, and I knew that this would be disruptive as a parent. Leslie would be disappointed with my travel schedule, and there had to be a better way to live my life.
It was at the 6-month pregnancy point when we (yes, we) decided that I would turn my photographic safari and workshop business into a full time (more than full time!) job. Well, I haven't looked back. But again the rat keeps eating away for more. So now this leads to the starting of a niche photographic product, which I will begin marketing and selling in early 2008. With one challenge under my belt, I am starting another one. The move from full time employee to self employed was a huge leap of faith, and I am a better person because of it. I am by nature a very risk averse person. However, there is a difference between calculated risk and being reckless. I like to think that my situation has all been about the former.
So I have to ask, what is *your* rat?
