anna kournikova

anna

playing

taking a break

crowd pleaser

Anna made a stop in Dallas to play at The Stanford Championships at SMU.

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mexico storm surf

Mexico Storm Surf

For months I had been harassing Ralph about taking a surf trip. Finally it all came together and we headed south in search of deserted beaches and great surf...we found all that and a little more. We had solid head high to overhead surf the whole trip.

We logged more than 3,000 miles in my old Toyota 4Runner and lived on coffee, street tacos, and beer. Life was good!

One of the photos that I shot on the trip is getting some attention on Surfline.com

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trout

Brazos River Trout

It is almost time...time for a relaxing day on the Brazos River fly fishing for these beautiful fish.

picnic

Lone Star Beer Riddle...it is an omen.

Picnic Beer

Group Photo

K and Kate

Kate

old yellow dog

old yellow dog

afghanistan and motorcycles

This is an old photo of Getty photographer John Moore (left) and me (right) in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I had been in southern Afghanistan for several months and was looking for a little release.

One day my fixer and I spotted an Afghan man riding an old Kawasaki dirt bike. I had to meet this guy...

We went on to chase the man down and spent the better part of the afternoon sipping green tea and talking about motorcycles in his small sign shop in Kandahar. The owner of the bike was a painter and artist. He ended up renting me the bike whenever I wanted to ride.

On slow days, I would run over to his shop and take off on the bike. It was so surreal racing across the desert and through the mountains on that bike...

Eventually my fixer located a second dirt bike in town and John would join me on occasion.

It was fun while it lasted. I ended up having a close call after clipping a rock and having a front flat at high speed, it was time to return the bike.

I pushed the bike to a roadside tire shop and had the flat repaired.

After that day, I never rode dirt bikes in Afghanistan again.

I will return and ride there again one day...

jazz festival

Saturday evening Kenda and I met several friends and went down to the Jazz By The Boulevard music festival. Good times.

Milton, Tom, Ralph

Milton

Ralph