February 11, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my past.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my good friend. My friend is not doing good. But my friend has a good attitude. I think it will help get my friend through what my friend’s going through.

This blog is called, “You Animal!” It’s basically about the animals I had on my shoots. And I mean the four legged animals.

One time, I checked into my room in Mexico. I think it was Cancun. Anyway, the room was nice. It was right on the water in the mangroves. The room was beautiful but the only problem was there was a 14 foot saltwater crocodile on my back deck. I called the front desk and said I’d like to change rooms. The guy at the front desk was a real snob. He said, but sir, you have the nicest room in the hotel. I said, sure, the room was nice, but the bottle opener was not so nice. He said, excuse me sir? and I said yeah, the bottle opener on my back deck is not so nice. He was confused. I said, I’d like to change my room because the 14 foot bottle opener on my back deck was making me a little nervous. I didn’t take any photos of it. I just got the hell out of there. Somehow a glazed window doesn’t seem it would stop a 14 foot long saltwater crocodile.

I’ll tell you one other story. I have many but I think two will be good. I was in Australia when a cockatoo (big white parrot with a gold feathered head) landed on my railing. Mind you, I was eight stories high. The bird just sat there. I ran to the kitchen, got me some bread and slowly crawled towards the bird. it was watching me. I was like a sloth slowly crawling towards the bird. The bird cocked its head. It looked at me. I was moving so slow because I didn’t want to scare it away. All of a sudden it took off and landed on the building next to me. All his friends were at this building. There must have been about 20 cockatoos. They were on a railing. There was a guy feeding them bread water and sugar. They were all over him and the railing. They were totally tame. It was cool. I got the picture and from then on out, I used to feed the cockatoos. Every morning they were there. They are beautiful birds.

Next time I’ll tell you about the kangaroos, the lammas, the bears, the horses. I could do a lot more, but I’m just gonna leave it at two stories.

Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

February 4, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about the past.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to someone I know who’s real sick and I’m worried for my friend. Anyway, this blog is dedicated to my friend.

Location location location. That’s the secret of taking a great photo.You gotta have a great location. Great light. And a few other things. But really, great location and great light make all the difference. I love looking for locations. It was my favorite day. We always put a day of location scouting in every photoshoot. The food wasn’t bad either.

I’m gonna keep it short this week. I don’t really feel like blogging.

Above is photo I took in my back yard. You never know when there’s gonna be a great location. It might be right in front of you. You just have to look.

Love, B. Nice

January 28, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my past.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to ME, because it was my birthday last week and I’m still celebrating. Oh, by the way, if you’re drinking from a sippy cup, never try and drink champagne from a sippy cup. I did this and wore half of my champagne. Now I know what a formula one driver feels like after he wins a race.

When I’m down I often think about moments from my past. A lot of moments in my life were almost spiritual. Like, I’ll give you some examples:

Witnessing the birth of my daughter was amazing. I always say it, but it is a miracle. To see a human come out of another human is amazing.

One moment that always stands out in my mind is when I was horseback riding in the Shoshoni Pass. The Pass is right on the border of Wyoming and Montana. Anyway, I was riding along on my horse and I looked over to my left, I saw a huge grizzly bear on the horizon. He was standing up and looking at me. My horse kind of freaked out. I kind of freaked out too. That was a big bear. But it was amazing to see.

Another moment that stands out in my mind was when I was in New Guinea. When I was a boy, I witnessed the celebration of two tribes getting together. I met the chief of one tribe. He was cool. My Dad, he and I went back to the chief’sa armory. The chief gave me a bunch of spears and arrows, and he shook my hand. I’ll never forget, but his hand was part human, part rain forest. Unfortunately all of my arrows and spears were confiscated by customs at the airport. But I do have a shield from when I went back there in the 80s.

Another moment I’ll never forget was when I was in the temple in India. I kept hearing the sound of bells and I kept following the sound. It was a bunch of temple girls that were getting me to follow them. I kept following the sound, but when I got to where they were, there was no one there. My parents said they never saw anyone. It was kind of creepy and freaky.

I’ll share with you one more spiritual moment. It was cool, I was underneath a bald eagle nest. It was a huge nest. It was just above me. Just as I was looking up a feather came out and spiraled down and landed at my feet. Very cool.

The following story started out as spiritual, but didn’t end up so good. I was mountain bike riding and I was going pretty fast. I came upon a huge, gigantic bird. It was a turkey vulture. Now, I literally scared the shit out of the bird because it shit all over my right hand my right knee, my right sholder and my right foot. It was nasty. Have you ever been shat upon by a turkey vulture? The smell was unbelievable. I guess I could say I’m kind of honored because not a lot of people get to smell turkey vulture shit. Thank god it was close to home so I could take a shower.

That’s all for this week. I’ve got lots of other stories, but we’ll save them for later. Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

December 31, 2024

Hi everybody, welcome to the blog where I talk about the past. Before we get started, I’d like to say Happy New Year to everybody, and also, today is the last day of 2024. Good luck next year. It’s up to you.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my daughter just because she’s awesome. I hope she has a great new next year.

I’m gonna keep this blog a little short, but man, when I lived in Australia, I loved my beer. Fortunately, or unfortunately for me, there were a lot of choices of beer. I think it’s all catching up to me. You should see my belly. They should give it a zip code. Just kidding. You know, being in a wheelchair changes your body shape. I guess it’s from sitting down for 15 years.

I’m gonna cut it off here because I have some friends coming over for some champagne. Love and miss you guys.

Hey! Check these photos I did from the past. I used to carry around a camera all the time.

December 17, 2024

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my past.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my daughter because it was her birthday yesterday.

Now I know I said it before, but to witness a birth is amazing. I know it’s a cliche when they say birth is a miracle, but it really is. I witnessed the birth of my daughter. It was incredible. Now, children aren’t supposed to be able to smile when they’re first born, but my kid did. It was cool. I had my camera and right when she was born, I said, “Welcome!” and she smiled. How cool is that?

I love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

P.S. and check out these pictures my friend and I load up. It’s cool. It’s like a virtual gallery. Below are some images I took in Australia. It was always an adventure shooting there.