Back in my days as the photographer for the Albany Patroons, I would attempt to “stitch” together action photographs of the Pats in dunking mode. The idea was to get the player as he’s going to the hoop, shot by shot, stitch by stitch. Unfortunately, I had several things working against me back then. One…
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Delta Airlines, Found Money, Getty Images and Cassaundra
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with air travel – love flying United, hate flying Southwest. It’s that simple. And although I really haven’t flown Delta in a long time, they actually did something this week that made me very happy – and, in turn, helped make my daughter happy as well. Flashback. Around this time…
Read MoreThe Purple Sunrise
It was December 2010. I was shooting my final rolls of Kodachrome film, and in the brutal, bitter, icy winter – a winter that was so cold, my frozen breath spelled out my curse words in cursive – I tried to capture some images. This was taken with decade-past-its-prime Kodachrome 25 film, a film that…
Read MoreThe WRGB Project: Repainting Red, Green and Blue
No, it’s not a project about our beloved Channel 6. My WRGB Project – in which I take a “white”, unfiltered B&W image and break it into its composite “red” and “green” and “blue” images – is based on my earlier experiments with the Prokudin-Gorskii Discipline. In that discipline, I photographed the same image several…
Read MoreCaption Time: The Window Shopper at Scully and Scully
During my St. Patrick’s Day stint in New York City, I had some time to kill before my photo assignment, so I walked around the West Side with my camera in hand and at the ready. Park Avenue was brisk and sunny, and I took a few photographs here and there. At one point, I…
Read MorePhotographing the St. Patrick’s Day Parade … the big one in New York City.
I had a photo assignment from one of my clients, and it required me to travel to New York City on Saturday. As I started to plan my trip, I realized that if I traveled to New York that day, I would be traveling in the middle of traffic for St. Patrick’s Day. This meant…
Read MoreRecreating The Prokudin-Gorskii Discipline: or, how I shot color images with black-and-white film
This guy was so far ahead of his time, that it would be the equivalent of Leonardo DaVinci creating the iPad. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer who, in the early years of the 20th century, found a way to create color images from monochromatic photography. He would expose three images on glass photographic…
Read MoreOn a winter beach in New Brunswick, Canada… I discover Matthew 7:25.
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m in Saint John, New Brunswick for a National Basketball League of Canada game between the Saint John Mill Rats and the Halifax Rainmen. It was a pretty decent game – both teams are headed for the playoffs, so the starters rested and the bench players got some minutes. Prior to…
Read MoreFirst you take my Kodachrome… now you gonna take my Ektachrome??
Well, I guess I should have expected this to happen… I just wish it didn’t happen so soon. Kodak has announced that as of March 1, 2012, they will no longer manufacture their slide film Ektachrome. Their last three slide film products – Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100G film, Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100VS film, and Kodak…
Read MoreSt. Agnes Cemetery announces 5th Annual Photography Contest
It’s time to take your camera, drive out to Menands, and capture the stunning beauty and reverence of one of the Capital District’s oldest burial grounds. And in doing so, you might also win a prize. For the fifth consecutive year, the people who operate St. Agnes Cemetery are asking you to bring your camera…
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