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Oct

No Kings 2.0

The weather was beautiful, the people even more so.

No Kings 2.0 in Troy, Michigan was yet another spectacular protest. Nationally too. More than 2,700 individual rallies sprouted up across the country and on foreign soil, including a single, solitary fellah in Tallinn — the capital of Estonia. About seven million people showed up for Saturday’s rallies – including more than 100,000 people in New York, according to CNN.

It was fantastic and EVERYONE happily, peacefully and very humorously protested.

This was my favorite picture from the day. And I had several of her to choose from!

Nov

Sea Lions and Tortoises and Boobies, Oh My!

A photo expedition to The Galápagos

A sea lion rests atop a rocky climb on South Plaza Island in The Galápagos while frigatebirds fly overhead.

The sea lion couldn’t have cared less about me. It was as disinterested as the iguana that I almost stepped on while photographing my cousin getting off the plane. That tortoise I took a dopey picture with? Yeah, as indifferent as they come.

I wasn’t expecting that down here on The Galápagos, just a touch south of The Equator and 600 miles out to sea.

Oct

People Don’t Really Talk About How To Actually Get To Machu Picchu

Only about 500 people lived at Machu Picchu at its peak. That’s incredible, considering the built-out area is about one million square feet.

Machu Picchu is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an overall really cool place to visit.

HOWEVER, people really don’t talk about just how involved it is to actually get there. I wrote about my recent visit in some detail here, but I thought it was important — for those considering the journey — to lay out a bit more detail about all the moving parts of the expedition.

Dec

My Favorite Pictures Of The Year

After snapping this photo on Piha Beach at the edge of the world in New Zealand, I went up to the family who was wondering why I was taking pictures of a puddle on the beach. They loved the photo and I happily emailed it to them. A week later, this beach town was devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Dec

The Spiritual Wanderer’s Holiday Wish

Once upon a time, in a city four or five hours from Bethlehem, an idea was born. The idea was, “Can Rodney write a story using Artificial Intelligence?”

The very next question was, “Should Rodney write a story using Artificial Intelligence?”

Jun

Ya know, UFOs!

Above left: The Gimbal UAP was part of a whole fleet that flew against the wind, stopped in mid-air, then rotated. Filmed by Navy pilots in 2015, it was released by To The Stars Academy. Click here for the video.

Above right: A triangle or pyramid-shaped object, one of several — as well as some brightly lit spheres — hovered around Navy ships in 2019, some of which then slowly descended into the ocean without a trace found by submarines or sonar. It was filmed by the Navy and released by Jeremy Corbell.
Click here for the triangle video. Click here for the sphere video.

UFOs are real.

That’s one of my favorite sentences ever written, along with: I’m in remission; I’m a grandfather; Biden won and Cappuccino Blasts are on sale.Read More

Apr

A Long Time Ago In Haiti

A young boy peers out through a shattered wall in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

(First published 30 years ago)

I can’t really say why I went down to Haiti in the first place. A friend of mine, who lived there, wrote and suggested I make the journey to “see some places and faces that would fill a whole book.” As every egocentric photographer knows, that’s all you really need to hear. What a jerky reason to go.

May

Photographers Near Me

Combining family photography and baby photography

Here’s a quick answer to a question I get all the time. A query comes in from Google with the search baby photographers near me. Short answer, I love photographing babies and have been doing it for 30 years, even before my wife and I had babies to photograph of our own. Read More

Feb

Go Rent Hector and the Search for Happiness

I think I have failed you, dear reader. And for that, I apologize. In my “best of” movie list for 2014, I left out a film I hadn’t seen yet. Granted, it was released in a very limited run — later in the year and didn’t really hit the DVD/rental market until a few months into this new year — but still, I could’ve done better.

If you haven’t guessed by the title of this blog, I’m referring, of course, to The Lego Movie. No, just kidding. Though I did wait until 2015 to see that particular film, I encourage you to go rent Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Apr