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December 31, 2006

Wow, your photographs are simply stunning. Great work. Great.
Paul Kind (New York)


December 30, 2006

Please come to Burning Flipside in Austin!
Your photos are nothing short of amazing.
Niki Acosta (Austin, Texas)


December 21, 2006

Yours is the first time I've ever been moved to write in a guestbook. Your work at Burning Man 2006 is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I have a degree in photography and you make some of my old professors' work look tame. Very very very nice work. Thanks.
Jim Stephan (California City, California)


December 18, 2006

great pics
thank you
xxx
Ramona Wouters (Vail, Colorado)


December 16, 2006

Excellent work! 2006 my first time and your photographs bring the memories flooding back! Thank you for sharing them.
Simon (England)


November 8, 2006

Your Burning Man 2006 pictures were incredible, thank you for sharing them with us all.
Andrew (Portland, Oregon)


October 19, 2006

Wanted to say that I enjoyed your pics from Burning Man. Thank you.
Charlie (San Francisco, California)


October 16, 2006

I was a 2nd year burner this year at Black Rock City, and just like last year, I find your pictures to be so incredibly beautiful and adept at capturing the magical spirit and beauty of Burning Man. This is just to say THANK YOU, I really appreciate your work, and the way in which you present it. On this mid-October eve, with winter creeping up on the East Coast, I look at your pictures and can taste the dust...
Caroline


October 11, 2006

Ich liebe deine Fotos, einfach Weltklasse.
Steffen (Germany)


October 11, 2006

Whew, what an approach you have for stimulating each and every sense (as you provided a wonderful trip to while away a few birthday morning magic hours). I did guess in '05 that you were not "just another" playa photog! Since we missed you this year, I hope to connect in 07. Namaste,
JC (Los Angeles, California)


October 3, 2006

Scott: I've deeply enjoyed some of your interviews on your website. You might think about interviewing Allan Savory sometime. He's the author of "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making" — a very profound book but not elegantly written. He spends half the year in his native Zimbabwe and the rest in Albuquerque. Regards
Peter Donovan (Enterprise, Oregon)


September 12, 2006

Hello. Your pictures are just as good this year as they were last year (Burning Man). In fact, they are incredible. I was there this year for the first time. I didn't see any of the people you shot, but I did get a maiden voyage on one of the art cars you shot. Very nice. I took 240 pictures, and NONE are as nice. Then again, I'm not a photographer ;)
Jim Chabai (Winnipeg, Canada)


September 11, 2006

Ciao Scott, ho visto le tue foto! Non sarò la prima nè certamente l'ultima a dirtelo: le tue foto sono meravigliose!!! Mi hanno catturata, stregata, amaliata... vivono di una vita propria... Sei grande!
Isabella


August 24, 2006

On your Burning Man 2005 pics, what lens, camera and filter setup did you use? I'm guessing a neutral density filter on some of your pics. I'm using a Sigma 10-20 EX on a Pentax ISTd with a tripod. I keep my lens clean and try for morning light. Could you give me some PhotoShop post processing advice as well? I'm shooting RAW, and correcting in RAW then re-sizing and smart sharpening the PSD file in Adobe then saving it as a 70-quality JPG. Your image sharpness blows mine away for the comparable file size to image size ratio; i.e your final product vs. my final product. Your blues to yellows and grey transitions are fabulous. Crisp yet gritty. I'm in awe. Any tips would be great. Your work inspires me to try harder. Thanks
Carter (Sacramento, California)

Reply: Carter, thanks for your kind feedback. I use Canon digital SLRs currently a 5D and a 20D, but I had a 20D and Digital Rebel XT at Burning Man last year. I felt that bringing two bodies was important in order to avoid constant lens changes in a very dusty environment. I had an assortment of lenses with me, but almost all the daytime shots you see on my web site were taken with a 50mm f/1.4 prime lens and a 70-200mm f/4 zoom. This year, my system will change a bit to allow for more wide-angle shots. But it's tough because I hate carrying a heavy bag around and my equipment weighs a lot more this year. Like you, I shoot in RAW mode and color correct using Photoshop. I use Unsharp Mask after resizing the image and then the save-to-web option. I haven't used the Pentax ISTd so I don't know what kind of image quality you get. But Canon digital SLRs are famous for their clarity, color and resolution. The images often look perfect even without tinkering with them in Photoshop. Credit for that goes to Canon, not me. But I'm glad you like the final results! You didn't say whether you're going to Burning Man. If so, I hope to see you out on the playa...


August 23, 2006

Love your work. Bumped into some of your work while surfing and now finally got the homepage. Keep it up!
Robyn Haywood


August 5, 2006

Can't believe it has taken us so long to stumble into your site. We are 10 year burners at this point and must say you have captured Burning Man better, more elegantly, gracefully, and beautifully than we have ever seen before. Please, please make the 100 pics a book so we can flip through it again and again. Else we'll just have to pop online. Thank you for the journey!
Adam & Stacie (Miami, Florida)


July 26, 2006

Yours are the very best Burning Man images I've ever seen. This year, I'm bringing an SLR loaded with film ... just for a different approach. I hope you are attending as well. I'll be in the same camp as last year, with the Airstreams. Perhaps we can meet up and shoot.
Jeanne, www.jeannehemhauser.com (San Francisco)


July 18, 2006

You are an inspiration to me ... Your contribution to society and mankind will surely remain for a long time. (I cannot help but suspect that you're a man who pledges his allegiance to our Creator, for therein lies your success.)
Adrian Baillie-Stewart (Cape Town, South Africa)


July 4, 2006

Wonderful photos! I need to see it for myself.... Soon!!
Howard (Salt Lake City)


June 24, 2006

Love the Burning Man pictures!
Carlos (London)


June 20, 2006

Hi. I am trying to reach Philip Langdon via e-mail. I have misplaced his contact information. He and his wife used to be my tenants on St. James Place in Buffalo, N.Y. and wrote about St. James Place in A Better Place to Live. Please ask him to e-mail me. Thanks,
Nina Crawford


June 14, 2006

Great site! Thank you.
John (Chicago, Illinois)


June 9, 2006

I stumbled across your photo essay today. I'm going to my first Burning Man this year. I'm scared as hell, but your pictures were inspiring. I can't wait for the experience. Just thought I'd let you know.
Liz (California)


June 5, 2006

Just spent an enlightening, interesting and entertaining evening on your website. The Sun came today, and a mention of Terry Tempest Williams made me do a search — and your site came up second, after hers. Once there, I couldn't resist the rest, from Burning Man photos to interviews of you. There went the evening, but well spent.
Nancy (California)


June 3, 2006

I enjoyed your website very much. We would love to have you drop by interfaithforums.com and share your wisdom with us. We do interviews on the forum and you would be very welcome in the Interview Zone.
Kelly, InterfaithForums


April 5, 2006

While surfing the web for interesting sites related to books we came across your site and think it would be an excellent place for our client, www.booksfree.com to advertise on (particularly on your book review page). If you are interested could you please provide rates as well as any other requirements. Thanks.
Andrew Siegfried

Reply: Sorry, Andrew, my site is ad-free.


April 4, 2006

I'm hanging out in London for awhile. I've been unaware so far of your photographic talent. I suspect what that Burning Man stuff might be but surely it must include a Perry Farrell lookalike contest.
Feri Hammer (London, U.K.)


March 22, 2006

I stumbled upon your site when I was online searching on Pico Iyer. I really enjoyed your site and especially your photographs and your interview/sound clip featuring Pico Iyer.
Maggie Lee (Canada)


March 21, 2006

I am a writer living in Canada at work on my third novel which is being shaped by my life-long interest in mythology, depth psychology and ecology. So, imagine my delight at being able to find your website with the transcripts of the interviews you conducted with some truly remarkable minds! You will definitely merit a mention on the acknowledgements page of my new novel. Thanks and keep up the fine work. By the way, I love the website and have passed on the link to the people involved in the Classical Pursuits program here in Canada (a group that uses the Great Books Foundation method of "shared enquiry' out of Chicago to explore the Classics...). There are many in the Classical Pursuits community and I think they would find your work uplifting.
Béa Gonzalez (Canada)


March 16, 2006

Thank you very much for introducing me to the Best of the West through your excellent interviews of soul-searching thinkers who constitute the true conscience of the West. I especially enjoyed your interviews of Bill Mollison (permaculture), Vandana Shiva (biopiracy — ok, she's of the East) and Jerry Mander (megatechnology). As Islam and Muslims are very much in the limelight now, I humbly propose that you interview Mark Hanson (Muslim name: Hamzah Yusuf). You may already have known of him, but anyway, he is widely considered to be the the most articulate voice of intelligent, educated mainstream Muslims of the West. You may go to the website of his institute to know more about him and the nature of his work (zaytuna.com). It's located somewhere in California, probably not far from your base.
Adi Setia (Malaysia)


February 22, 2006

I came for the Bill Mollison interview and stayed for the rest. Thanks for the great site and please, please don't let it disappear. I don't want to lose the Mollison interview.
Douglas J E Barnes, Permaculture Reflections (Tokyo, Japan)


February 20, 2006

Hello, I have reveiwed your site and come to the conclusion that you have a wonderful understanding of diversity in America. Thank you. I will be using some infomation in a report i am doing for an Americana project. Thanks again with tons of love.
Lafonduh (Wisconsin)


February 17, 2006

I just looked at all your Burning Man photos and — Wow! — thanks so much for putting together these beautiful images in such a great way. I feel like I just had a little mini-visit back to the playa. Makes me want to go back NOW ... You're very talented.
Julie (California)


February 17, 2006

Complimenti.
Mirco, SOSidea


February 16, 2006

You're very handsome and manage to look cool in ruffles. Very unusual in a photographer.
Jana (California)


February 12, 2006

Your site was on a list of book reviewers I was given. I write poetry and would be happy to send you a book to review. Please advise and thank you. You have a very impressive site, love the photography.
GeorgeAnne Smith (Oregon)


February 1, 2006

In a search on Jung I became aware of your Anima Mundi interviews. I am most grateful to be able to read interviews and articles on your site. Since I travel often I have found listening to be a very fruitful way of taking in the thoughts of others.
Jeanne P.


January 18, 2006

Incredible photos. Haven't yet checked out the rest of your site — had to vent first. Consistenly interesting and beautiful images and people. Thanks!
Joe Muschinske (New York)


January 10, 2006

Wow!!!! Your pictures are awesome... I was DJ-ing at Trancendance Saturday morning with a nice sunrise to watch and will put up my amateur photos on my webpage soon. But I have a question. Is it possible to use any of your pictures in my gallery, of course with your name and website visible on each picture? Thank you and keep up the good work!!!
Anneli, www.djanneli.com (Stockholm, Sweden)

Reply: Anneli, thanks for your kind words about my Burning Man photos. You are more than welcome to use my images on your site. I wish I had known you were spinning at Transcendence. It would have been great to meet you. So, here's the weird thing: before I moved to the States in 1990, I was represented by EMA Telstar and, like you, worked in clubs all over Sweden (and throughout Europe). My homebase was a club in Stockholm called Valentino. I have mixed feelings as I think back on all those weekends working the crowds in places like Jönköping, Trollhättan, Kristianstad, Luleå, and Linköping. But I'm guessing the life of a DJ has improved greatly as people have come to appreciate the DJ as an artist and a professional. Hope to see you on the playa in 2006.


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