Story By Randy Woods © Matt Freedman & Chef Tiberio Simone The old saying “you are what you eat” takes on new meaning in this nude study by Seattle photographer Matt Freedman. Shot for a proposed book project, “Citrus” is part of an ongoing series of images created jointly by Freedman and...

Story by Randy Woods Bill Dobbins, known as one of the world’s foremost photographers of female bodybuilders, often compares the supremely sculpted models he shoots to landscapes. “Those who shoot traditional nudes tend to focus on soft, clean lines of the human body,” he says. “But with body...

By Randy Woods Rob Sinclair’s nighttime image of Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is proof that if a hydrothermal eruption happens and there are no tourists there to gawk at it, it’s still beautiful. Copyright © Rob Sinclair   Shot in October 2006, the image is part...

By Randy Woods Few images better evoke the idea of summer than sun, water and happy kids. Ric Peterson’s image of children in mid-leap toward a seemingly limitless lakeside horizon is the perfect way to close our summer issue. Copyright © Ric Peterson The image came about after Peterson...

By Randy Woods Bay Area photographers Greg Lorenz and Kim Avelar specialize in tricking the eye, in creating images that appear to be real but couldn’t possibly exist. In their world, woodpeckers have drill bits for beaks; barracudas cruise the deep with submarine propellers; plants spread solar...

By Randy Woods After spending a large part of his career in Southeast Asia, photojournalist Richard Vogel thought he had seen every type of Buddha statue as he covered various religious shrines and festivals for the Associated Press.       Copyright © Richard Vogel Until he saw this...

By Randy Woods   This image of a northern pygmy owl calling to its mate from a woodpecker hole in a quaking aspen tree took just a fraction of a second to make.   Copyright © Paul Bannick   For wildlife photographer Paul Bannick, however, it took days of careful tracking, observation of...

San Francisco is a city built on an active fault zone and is famous for having a decidedly off-kilter subculture. It’s only natural, then, that the city’s unstable beauty should be captured perfectly by a jiggly dessert.     Copyright © Liz Hickok Bay Area artist and photographer...

Spring is definitely in the air for this happy couple. Their costumes may seem unusual, but their eternal, happy pursuit is universally recognizable.     Copyright © Andy Batt This image, by Portland, Ore., photographer Andy Batt, was made for the Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) to promote the...

What do you get when you mix together a group of modern ballet dancers, a barren landscape and a freelance photographer who doesn’t take himself too seriously? If that photographer is the itinerant Albert Normandin, the answer is “Jump,” an image that sums up his kinetic style and love...