I have been doing photography as at least part of my living for years now, but mostly for non-art related photography. I do a lot of product design and photography for a friends laser electronics company. Over the winter I did a lot of jewelry photos for a local jewelry store. My personal photography is just reference for paintings. Photography is work, or a tool for me. It's usually a means to an end.

One of the tasks at my new job led me to Yellowstone to photograph interactive panoramas. The idea is to pan over the screen and see different parts of a hot spring and be able to interact with images of known critters. I live an hour and a half from Yellowstone, but I haven't gone there in years. I forgot how cool it is.

I went there on Friday and shot all day with a camera, tripod, tripod panorama head, a bag of lenses and a mini DV camera for stock footage.

I had a shot list of Norris and Mammoth, and those took all day. Setting up the tripod took a lot of work and I was unsure of the stitching procedure. The results were so good that I went bad on Sunday with my wife. I want to go back again.

I purchased stitching software and programmed a flash player for the panorama. It came together pretty fast. I also took a lot of images of microbial mats which I might include as textures.

So that is the reason for the photo flood. These are all work photos, but some were artistic enough for my portfolio. These are meant to illustrate science and research.