“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.” – Nick Romano, Knock On Any Door
The most complex piece we’ve put together thus far, with almost two dozen separate elements composited together and layers that probably numbered in the hundreds. The model is Ashley Violet, make-up by Mariam Samandi and guest appearances by your two [...]

This will probably be the last shot from Vegas, for a while anyway. This is the view from the tram station at the Luxor. There, you can catch a ride to New York or Mandalay Bay. You can also catch wanna-be photographers like myself, taking this exact shot or one very similar to it at [...]

‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
This is one of the dragon statues in front of Mandalay Bay in Vegas, taken on a night when we were still recovering from the night before. It truly is the city that [...]

‘Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.’ – Chuck Palahniuk
I don’t know if I would completely agree with that, but besides the bums, drunks, hookers and the guys handing out business cards for the hookers, it is quite an amazing sight. A friend described it to me as an amusement [...]

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‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’ Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address, 1863
I often wonder what some of our past leaders and founding fathers would think of our country’s current state. My [...]