My first real gig as a freelance photographer was shooting sailboat races in the Pacific Northwest. I'd stand near the bow of a 16 foot long powerboat, taking pictures, as we sped alongside crazy fast racing dinghies plowing through turbulent seas.

For most of my career in photography and commercial printing, the game has always been to come close to the magic of the human eye.

Back in the day, when I was learning to shoot film, hardly a day went by that I didn't wish for more light. Film just wasn't that sensitive and, inevitably, the shot I wanted was blurred, grainy, or just plain weird once I'd applied all my lightening tricks in developing and printing the image

One of the coolest stealth features of the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro cameras is Night Mode. It’s a stealth feature in that you’ll never know you have it if you don’t push the envelope by taking pictures in very low light without a flash.