by Jim Bass | Jun 4, 2012 | Portraits
I first met Thelma as she was about to turn 100 years old. I photographed her birthday party at her retirement community. Originally from Texas, she’d moved to Thousand Oaks to be closer to her daughter. She was an avid reader of serious books and told some...
by Jim Bass | Jun 1, 2012 | Product photography
My granddaughter loves to play in the sandbox. In my experience the three most played with toys are sand, water and cardboard. They’re cheap, require no batteries, make no noise and provide hours of entertainment for kids with imaginations (which is all of...
by Jim Bass | May 24, 2012 | Portraits
Making people come alive for the camera isn’t easy. Often they are self conscious and tense, which is perfectly understandable. Most of us neither look like models nor have the model’s skill of “being on” when the shutter clicks. You have to...
by Jim Bass | May 22, 2012 | Kids
The Boys and Girls Club of Oxnard and Port Hueneme does a lot of important work. They are more than a client to me, they’re a good cause. No, an excellent cause. I’ll let the video tell the story. There’s a gallery of photos linked off the home page....
by Jim Bass | May 17, 2012 | Product photography
How can you photograph industrial products to make them look glamorous? Or at least pretty enough to command a full page advertisement. Amy Brown is Director of Corporate Communications at Birns, Inc, an Oxnard, California manufacturer of lighting and communications...
