I seem to have hit a snag

Photos aren't flowing, I know. I haven't picked up the big Nikon in many months. I have shoots planned, but right now I'm pulling everything close to home and rethinking my situation.

One for now.

Fare thee well

I'm outta there. IMD is closing it's doors, so I landed a new place to hang my scoutmaster hat...anyone a wine drinker out there? It's going to be the coolest challenge of my life! Time to rock!

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone....it was, bar NONE, the best opportunity and experience in my life. I deeply cherish the old friends I got to work with, the new people I got to meet, new friendships we formed and the LOADS OF SO MUCH FUN we had! And we did it all in 3.75 short years. We moved from startup mode to building a new movie studio, moved twice and produced TWO for-real Hollywood movies. No way! Yup. From ZERO to 450 to ZERO in the blink of an eye.

There will NEVER be another THORNDALE (we were blessed to be a part of that place).

Keep up with IMD's Ex-employees group on Facebook and we'll get together August 20&21, 2011.

Fleet Week SF 2010 from the Marin Headlands Fort Baker

 

A drink of french water

Take care at watering holes....big cats have been seen in the area of abundant water

A Bug's Life....for real

Spidey Day 2

She's back, our little crab spider. We're glad.

Along came a spider

and setup house at my house. Lovely day for spidey pics

someone needs a hug

ready for her closeup

shallow depth of field

A Double Rainbow !!!!!

A double rainbow at sunrise from IMD's Thorndale compound January 8, 2008. This is a 24 photo-stitch of 4megapixel digital JPG files.

another backyard flyover

and this time she landed for a bit, a Monarch butterfly!

Labor Day resting

Paid our respects to the day by relaxing at the lake. So did this little guy

Those lazy dayz of summer

A comp of 15 iPhone photos while laying down in the cool grass. Those three large trees are "extras" from ILM's vfx work on Jurassic Park III. The scenes where the pygmy dudes were running through the forest...these trees filled the scenes out a bit. These are Chinese Elms planted just far enough apart to be a little grove of shade and perfect for three hammocks.....I'm just sayin'

Good friends, good weather, great planes

The Charles Shultz - Sonoma County Airport hosted the Wings Over The Wine Country 2010 Airshow this past weekend. We started off with a pilot's breakfast at Piner Cafe and then flew over to the airport for a whole day of planes, planes and more planes. And gobs and gobs of sunshine. Same time next year!

You can see the whole album of photos HERE

Bear in the Air

I spied a bear in the air after work last night. He circled the park near our house for 10 minutes or so....long enough for me to OOOOOGLE and then realize I NEEEEEDED my camera. He then did a couple of low, slow loops around ME shooting HIM before he skedaddled.

Ft. Bragg's Skunk Train with patriotic colors on July 4th, 2010

We were under attack today

Or, if we were, we were well protected. These guys were flying all over....as seen from my backyard.

ADD: This morning's paper has the answer

I see a bear in the air

See guns on the gunship

Acrobatics

scanning in the old

trip to Orlando, Universal Studios and Disney World, 1986?

biking on the raised Embarcadero Freeway in SF for the AYH Annual Bike Ride, 1993?

coolness of the hair, 2001?

when a boy meets a girl

Masako Yamamoto-Stephenson in Tokyo, Japan

Carl Gene Stephenson in Vietnam

one done

Graduation was yesterday. One son done.

the whole enchilada

or pot roast, as it were. I ended up with a old favorite restaurant's signage....all I had to do was ask. No drunk vandalism necessary! Amazing!

She's getting older....

Gertie is a year old now

Compare

around the place

we relaxed and played

relax like this

play like this

some observed the action

and some took care of business

Boy Scouts are evil

Here's proof

a very nice time was had at Lake Sonoma

we camped and cooked and enjoyed the out-of-doors

wrastlers wrastled

tug'o'wars spontaneously happened

happy campers camped

and sad campers cried

Robogames 2010

Posers

Prom Season Is Upon Us

My son and his friends were off to the Prom tonight.....I'm home reflecting now