Category: non-profit

  • It’s 2025. The Broligarchy is in power. Project 2025 is in effect. There are more than enough news reports about how dark and scary these times are for anyone who is not a rich white straight male (Broligarch). Which could result in a strong urge to hide and shrink away for the next four years.…

  • It’s GIVING TUESDAY… Let’s give on Giving Tuesday to our favorite nonprofits like we give to Amazon on Cyber Monday! If you don’t have a favorite nonprofit, here are some of my local favorites who are making the world a better place, and who I have been lucky to document… The Sonoma County Family YMCA…

  • Just when this family had returned to their home from the hospital… And just as they were starting to come to terms with what their new life would be like fighting the rare form of cancer that was discovered in their four-year-old son… Ron Powell, EZ’s father, died suddenly Sunday morning on February 2nd, 2014.…

  • The University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley had their Green Gala Fundraiser today. The highlight of the event was definitely the fashion show of sustainable and local designs held in their stunning Redwood Grove Amphitheater. The eco-chic designers used inspiration directly from the Garden’s uniquely biodiverse plant collection to create two original designs that feature…

  • [rockyou id=153056044&w=579&h=433] It is MALT time again for me, which means I get to go explore amazing ranches in West Marin and document what goes on, for MALT’s (Marin Agricultural Land Trust) annual report. This time I went to Barinaga Ranch. The owners, Marcia Barinaga and her husband Corey Goodman, wanted to buy a farm…

  • Here is just one more photo… well really there are 19 more photos in this one photo…. from my night at the JB Blunk Residency that I have been posting about… the photos that were lost but not really lost. Anyway, I wanted to try and show the amazing scope of the environment, but I…

  • In my last post, I confessed that I “lost” some files. And just like fishing, those were the ones that got away… so I raved and raved about how great those photos were and I woefully mourned their loss. Well, today I found them. I think they were bigger and better swimming in my memory.…

  • If you are an artist who is need of a quiet and inspiring place to recharge your creative spirit and make some serious art… then you should look into the J.B. Blunk Residency. You can read all about it on their website, so I won’t go into too much detail here… but I will say,…

  • I was hired by Re:Vision to go to Dallas and find people to tell the story of Dallas. Re:vision is hosting an architectural contest to build a community in one city block of downtown Dallas. Their premise is, “building community one city block at a time.” So Re:Vision wanted to show the architects a multimedia…

  • Farming has changed greatly over the last two generations, as Gene Ponica knows that first hand. He says, growing up on a dairy ranch was not fun for a kid. But the dairy cows are long gone these days. It was too expensive and challenging to upgrade all the old equipment to meet today’s strict…