This photo is a wonderful example of the importance of timing in photography! It was shot by a tourist, and miraculously no one was injured, although the ship's mast was destroyed.

Read story on BBC.

Photo Credit: idenity of the photographer doesn't appear in the article.

My work was just posted on the blog "Signs of Our Times," and will be included in a group exhibition which will take place September 14-19, 2010 at Mobius in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

This is an open call for work meeting the following criteria:

Have you ever been walking, bicycling, driving, sitting in a bus or train and suddenly seen a sign which made you do a double take? or seen a sign whose meaning escaped you or initially gave you pause and then perhaps you comprehended its meaning or didn't? or a sign which made no sense at all?  or a sign that just made you laugh or cry hysterically for some unfathomable reason?

This call is about those puzzling/surreal/emotionally evocative signs of our times.  "Of our times" is defined as either drawing from your own personal experience/history or the collective's present, near past or imagined future.

Quidelines for submission of work.

Photo Credit: Rene' West, Crosswalk Man (Atlanta) from the series "City Walls" © 2010

The NYTimes has an article up about the rise of the self-portrait on social networking sites. A do's and don'ts list of ways to improve them, and a fun set of slides showing examples of how to strut your stuff without seeming vain. An article filled with contradictions ;-)

Slide Show

Brian Skerry from National Geographic talks about ocean life, environmental issues, and shows his incredible photographs from the last 30 years.

For Memorial Day: A slide show of women in uniform.

Photo Credit: Library Of Congress via Women’s Memorial Foundation

Serious time killer: look at more images in the Library of Congress' Photo Archive.

Recent work shot in Albuquerque from my newest project entitled, City Walls.

I will be traveling quite a bit this summer so posting maybe irregular and based on the journey.

Photo Credit: Rene' West, Arrow (Albuquerque) from the series "City Walls" © 2010