by Jim Bass | Feb 23, 2014 | On Assignment, Portraits
Bevan Manson, an accomplished jazz and classical musician/composer/educator, contacted me last November to shoot photographs for his upcoming CD. With the signature piece entitled California Concertino for Flute & Chamber Orchestra, Bevan wanted something that...
by Jim Bass | Feb 4, 2014 | Odds & Ends
The Conejo Grade is the winding section of the 101 freeway connecting the Conejo Valley (Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village) with Camarillo. Over the course of 2.3 miles, the road drops more than 700 feet and forms the unofficial boundary between east and...
by Jim Bass | Jan 27, 2014 | On Assignment, Portraits
Being a photographer is having a license to be nosy. For the curious, this is a dream job where you get to peek behind the scenes and understand a little more about how our world works. So it was a true pleasure shooting a cover portrait of Wei Lin for Minority...
by Jim Bass | Jan 14, 2014 | Architectural photography
As a photographer I sometimes walk into a scene that has such beautiful light anything I photograph will look good. Sometimes I get the opposite. This is about one of those times. I’ve been shooting a series of swimming pool photographs for a high-end pool...
by Jim Bass | Sep 3, 2013 | Odds & Ends
After four weeks with temperatures never reaching 80 degrees in Thousand Oaks, the heat arrived with a vengeance last week. My thermometer topped out at 97 one day. When that happens, the west county, just 25 minutes away, offers cool relief. So last week, after...
