Patara Elephant Farm

"Patara Elephant Farm is a Thai owned and managed farm focusing on health-care and breeding management for friendly, beautiful and special elephants to produce healthy elephants to live on Earth..." www.pataraelephantfarm.com

Chiang Mai, Thailand

The Botany of Desire

Often, spinning around in my own washing machine of thought that is usually stuck on Normal cycle; warm|warm, I forget how wonderful it is to encounter new ideas and ways of thinking, especially in regard to tangible everyday things. Plants domesticating humans...fantastic!

Leftbank/Stumptown Coffee Summit

A few nights ago Leftbank held a panel discussion and tasting organized and hosted by Stumptown Coffee Roasters. They brought in coffee farmers and buyers from Kenya, Costa Rica and Colombia and discussed direct trade, development and how Stumptown is spearheading a farm-to-cup culture that is a win-win-win scenario for the coffee farmer, the buyer and finally, the consumer. It was great to hear directly from farmers about how direct trade is helping them improve their lives, their business and their coffee.

Mr. Leo

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

I took a photograph of this octopus tentacle a while back and thought it would make a great cover to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

5d Mark II Video Fun

Playing around with a steadycam system I've made for the 5d mark ii.

80 Japanese Girls and One Boy

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Was hired by Nagoya Future Culture College and Andeo to do a shot of their exchange student group the other day on the steps of the Portland State University library. We had about a 10 minute window to get everyone organized and do the shoot and everyone was very cooperative and with some creative Japanese instruction by yours truly everything fell right into place and we got the shot we needed. I wonder how this would have worked with 80 eighteen year old American kids.