Every so often, I have vivid dreams about photographing an amazing landscape bathed in fantastic light. The dreams are often very thorough, including the events preceding the shoot, scouting the location, the actual photography with the camera itself, and the sometimes the stoke of successfully capturing the moment. In the more frustrating dreams, I’m confused and fumble with my gear, or I’ve forgotten some crucial equipment, or I’m too late for the light, rushing around trying to find my spot and missing the moment. Those are actually the forgiving dreams. The worst are the successful shoots, because I always wake up extremely disappointed that it was a dream and all my photos have vanished.

My photo “Plitvice Waterfalls”, shown below, is by far my most popular photo. It seems to show up on Digg.com just about every month (much to the chagrin of the regular Digg members). Digg.com is a high-traffic web community that shares links to interesting web pages. I love to browse the comments on Digg, since they come from a seemingly random pool of viewers. Here’s some of the funnier comments I’ve read.



“If Jack Bauer’s gonna take time off from fighting terrorists to be a photographer, he seriously needs a better pseudonym.”

“That would look really nice in my backyard.”

“Reminds me of the jungle level in The lion king game for sega.”

“Not an incredible photo. Just incredible scenery.”

“F–k California and Florida, I want to be THERE.”

“I mean, how many waterfalls do you *need*? And they’re all over the place! It looks like Croatia’s just trying to show off, and has no real sense of style about it. Like they just came into waterfalls and couldn’t *wait* to use all of them. Tacky.”

“It’s mind-bottling.”

“This should be the kind of place one can go to and enjoy a naked swim with his girlfriend without worrying about having pictures of his and specially her most beautiful ass being Dugg a day later.”

“Seeing that makes me want to go outside again!”

“i wanna build a huge tree fort and live there some day.”

“it’s an in-game DX10 render from Crysis.”

“These photos suck. simple as that.”

“You know what this picture needs? boobies.”

“Beautiful! I feel like urinating.”

“Wouldn’t be Digg if this wasn’t on once a month.”

“That’s not my pants! How on earth can that be paradise?”