MS 160 – Please Support

This weekend I am cycling in the MS 160 – the Southern California Chapter’s Multiple Sclerosis charity ride to help fund research for a cure for MS. As an athlete, I pretty much train year round for events like this, participating in a handful of charity rides along with my other crazy adventures.  I believe [...]

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thought for the day

“In truth, most of us vacillate between remembering and forgetting our own true egoless nature. The point is to catch this process as it occurs. The freedom state of consciousness I pray each one of us embodies is the ability to see the game of ego, have compassion for this predicament, develop a sense of [...]

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Santa Monica Sunset. Photo © Chris J. Russo.

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Fresno REEL Pride

One of the great things about being a filmmaker is being able to travel to festivals and show your work to different audiences and meet really interesting people.  This weekend, my producer, Rebecca Sekulich, and I are in Fresno, CA, at the REEL PRIDE Film Festival, showing our short, 25 Random Things I Did During [...]

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thought for the day

“I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.”                   – Aldo Leopold

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ramblings from the road / Mt. Whitney

The alarm went off at 2:20am and we were in the car moments later from the Dow Villa Motel in Lone Pine (a kitschy, historical motel decorated with lots of John Wayne movie memorabilia) and headed towards the Whitney Portal, 11 miles up the road.  I have never really hiked in the dark before, or [...]

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Summit of Mt. Whitney, 14,496′. Photo © Chris J. Russo.

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thought for the day

Overheard this morning on the beach in Santa Monica:
“You have to face your fears, sometimes. Really. It’s just a one-inch sand crab.”
- Young boy, maybe 8 years old, to a young girl

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The view from Gothic Road, Crested Butte, CO. Photo © Chris J. Russo.
I got back to my photographic roots on my recent road trip and shot some medium format images of the Colorado landscape with my twin lens reflex Seagull camera that I used a lot in graduate school. Usually, this format lends itself best [...]

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ramblings from the road / Los Angeles (pitstop)

It’s easy to leave your life, the hard part is coming back. I am briefly back in Los Angeles from my sojourn to Colorado, but I am pretending that I am still there.  I imagine the morning air is cool and clear and crisp, the mountains sit outside my bedroom window, and the people all [...]

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