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Let’s get this out of the way right now. A professional photographer is one who is paid for their work. An amateur photographer is one that takes photos and does not get paid for the results. This is an important distinction. Because I do sell my photos, and I have taken photos as part of…

I hadn’t initially thought about the Saratoga County Fair’s photo show. Maybe because I was too busy looking at my other options for my photos. But after some careful prospectus examination, I decided that this year, I would give this fair a try. One time. One chance. If I liked what happened, if I felt…

Last night, I witnessed an amazing astrological event. And I have a photo to prove it. Background. A few months ago, I tried capturing a lunar eclipse from the overlook of a hotel in East Greenbush. I got through a portion of the eclipse, but just as the big show began, a series of thick…

It’s Competition Season time, and in the past my entries for the Eastern States Exposition (the “Big E”) are usually submitted in late August. Apparently that has changed; there’s a new deadline of July 1 for this year’s show. So I gathered my images from the past year and made my submission list. Thankfully, the…

Because my copy of PhotoShop exists on my desktop back home – and I was over 300 miles away from home AND wouldn’t be back until Sunday night – I had to wait and WAIT and WAIT to see if the shots I took were truly Competition Season-worthy. I mean, I had a train chase,…

Thursday. 3:00 a.m. in the morning. No one should be up this early unless they have a newspaper route. But today is the day. Today is the chance to photograph the Union Pacific 4014 “Big Boy” train as it chugs through Western New York. And I live in Eastern New York … so if I…

My Nikon F2S camera, nicknamed “Nikon Athena,” is a damn fine 35mm shooter. But i want more for it. I want to turn this camera into a 35mm shooting BEAST. I want to enable burst shooting mode in this bad boy. In other words, I want to press the button and have this camera take…

Next Thursday will be a very chaotic day for me. But I’m hoping that chaos brings success. Next Thursday is the day that the Union Pacific 4014 engine, colloquially known as “Big Boy,” will travel through Western New York. I’ve mapped out six different possible shooting locations, with a goal of getting images from at…

Earlier this month, I submitted three of my photos to Square Art New York’s online call for their “Black and White” photo competition. This is one of those “next steps” that will hopefully bring me to that incredible moment of possibly seeing one of my artworks hanging in a New York City art gallery. Well,…