A balmy 76° in Los Angeles today.  Just got done washing the car in my shorts and sandals, and I can’t say I miss the snow back in Chicago one bit!

“How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life… you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV… the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home… I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office… and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.” – Ryan Bingham Up in the Air

It being Halloween, I was all prepared to post a pic of the pumpkin I carved last year and to wax nostalgic about how my jack-o-lantern was key to Obama getting elected. 

But I’m kind of digging these pics that I took last night while taking off from Dallas, on our way to Florida, so let’s just leave the past to the past for now.  Happy Halloween, everyone!

I’ve always loved to fly.  Not only is air travel, in my opinion, one of man’s greatest achievements, but the opportunity to see the world from miles above is nothing short of awe inspiring.  Plus that feeling of movement, that you’re going somewhere, never ceases to amaze me, no matter how uninteresting the ultimate destination may be.

I took this photo with my iPhone in April while flying back to LA from a job in Philadelphia.  It was on this flight that I began to flirt with the idea of creating some sort of photography blog; so this pic seemed an appropriate shot to get things started.

My hope is to post a new picture each day to this site, a “Pic of the Day” if you will. The images will run the gamut of photography, from landscapes to portraits, concert pics to food porn.  Some photos will be quite old, and some will have been taken the same day that they’re posted.

I appreciate you taking the time to check out this digital gallery of my work, and I hope you’ll come back soon.  A special thank you goes out to Robert of Looplava for helping to launch this and so many other amazing websites.  Thanks R!