A few major announcements

As a special preview of my upcoming newsletter, just for my blog readers.

First, as of this last Memorial Day weekend, I’m hereby happy to declare myself (nearly) fully recovered from my accident last February. All the pain medicines have now been weaned out of my system, and I finally feel like myself again for the first time in a very long while. All that’s left is to strengthen the broken wrist, but I can now hold my camera and twist in a large lens without fear of them hitting the ground with a big thud.

On Friday, UPS delivered the advance copy of my fifth book, Backroads of the California Coast. Although the format has changed slightly away from the coffee-table style of my previous books, the printing in this book is excellent, and I’m really quite happy with how it turned out. It’s such a nice feeling when a project turns out as something you can be proud to show off. The book should be hitting the store shelves by mid-Summer.

And speaking of books, I’m delighted to announce that in tandem with my recovery, I’m now starting work on my sixth book, California; Yesterday & Today. This will be a hardback coffee-table format historical vs. contemporary, compare and contrast project. In addition to doing all of the modern photography, I’ll also be doing the historical research, as well as all of the writing.

In fact, to start this project off, I feel incredibly lucky, as I’ve just been granted access to photograph the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Friday at Edwards AFB as she gets prepped for her turnaround back to Florida. Edwards AFB is famous its role in aviation history, much of that put to celluloid in the film, “The Right Stuff“. I still can’t believe my good fortune that I’ll have this as my first official shoot for this new book project.

Great Big Rocket Glider Plane here I come. More announcements when I get back.