Photographing for CAFO Summit 2018 - With Gennadiy Mokhnenko. Having ridden from Paris France to the Atlantic ocean last year with Gennadiy and his adopted boys, it was an amazing experience to be by their side at CAFO Summit 2018. Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine interviewed...
Day 02 of the World Without Orphans Cycling Team’s coast to coast tour. Day two of the biking tour contained mixed emotions. The team has a heavy heart that many of Gennadiy’s thirty two adopted boys were unable to obtain visa’s to participate in the tour....
Day 01 of the World Without Orphans Cycling Team tour from the California coast to the Miami coast. It was a historic moment for Gennadiy Mokhnenko and his 32 adopted boys as they began their 2600 mile bike ride across the US which will complete their...
Saturday, Day 01 of the World Without Orphans Cycling Team tour from the California coast to the Miami coast. These photographs are from today’s 72 mile ride with its grueling 4000’ climb from the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures soared into the nineties but fresh picked oranges and...
With the Pacific Ocean for a backdrop, over 900 Pepperdine “waves” took their walk across the stage, repositioning tassels and accepting their hard earned diplomas in the process. I’m pretty sure that of all the dad‘s present, there were none more enthusiastic and proud than...
Carol and I loved attending "Is This It" featuring works by seven artists who are graduating this year from Pepperdine's Seaver College with BA degrees in Studio Art. The work displayed included paintings and installation, as well as reflective concept art focused on social commentary....
The annual Pepperdine University Christmas tree lighting was beautiful...
We do not remember days; we remember moments. Poet and novelist - Cesare Pavese Our day yesterday was full, from an amazing corn beef sandwich at Nate'n Al’s Delicatessen in Beverly Hills, where nothing has changed much in 75 years to the amazing Getty museum perched high...
January 17th 2016 - In and around the Yosemite National Park Wilderness, photographing the stars with Marcus Bowen Somehow, our afternoon meet up in Yosemite National Park did not materialize, storytelling, an unforgettable meal and conversations with the wait staff at Yosemite's famed Ahwahnee hotel were...
I'll be honest, LA and myself have never really been friends. I've tried, I really have, and I like to think I can become friends with any city but try as I might, it is at best a love hate relationship without much love. Be that...
