Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Yesterday, on my way home from a recent photo shoot, I kept my eyes open for more colorful fall foliage photo opportunities. Nothing here… This piece is nice, but there’s no place to park … Private property, the no trespassing sign is nice and clear… Oh look, there’s the Hollywood Drive-In at Averill Park.ย Not…
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Three months ago, I tested out a new Russian super-telephoto lens, the MC MTO-1100, on my Nikon Df.ย And although the results were okay, I couldn’t remove the lens from the camera without taking the entire lens assembly apart. Nertz. On Sunday, after Allen at CameraWorks repaired the Russian lens, I tested it out one…
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For the past couple of months, my beloved Nikon Df camera was on the sideline, recovering from a broken shutter blade.ย And while I was still able to take pictures with my film cameras, I needed my Df back.ย I just do.ย It’s like driving a rental car when your personal whip is in the…
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And here we are.ย Thursday night at the old Canfield Casino in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs.ย And three of my artworks – Vivaldi’s Pond, Backstretch and Dream Window 17: An Adirondack Reflection – are on display, along with the paintings, photographs and sculptures of three dozen other talented Capital District artists. Welcome to the…
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Competition Season 2016 has been, for all intents and purposes, a stone cold flop.ย Outside of photo-specific category contests (like the triplet goat photo We Are Not Chickens), and competitions where my photography is not the primary focus (The Cathedral of St. Philco, Dream Window 17: Friday Night Fish Fry), only one picture taken during…
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It was early last August, and I knew something was wrong the moment the heartbeat stopped. A quick check.ย Nothing. I tried other options.ย Nothing. Not a sound. Not a beat. God, no. Please Lord, no. With all the horrible things in my life that have turned 2016 into a big mucky mess… this can’t…
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The 2016 “Members’ Show” for the PhotoCenter of the Capital District is coming soon, and I submitted four entries for this year’s event. The nice thing about the PhotoCenter’s show is that it brings some of the Capital District’s best photographers together and allows them to display their best works in one centralized location.ย And…
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For the third year in a row, I’ve submitted my Saratoga-themed artworks to a special charity auction and art show. ย The Saratoga Springs Preservation Society’s “TRASK Art Show and Sale” takes place on September 29 at the Canfield Casino, with the proceeds from each item sold earmarked for the preservation of Saratoga Springs’ buildings and…
Read MoreAs you can imagine, I’ve been having some fun with this layered-film attempt to photograph a switchback road in the Helderbergs.ย And in doing so, I snagged a great five-layer film shot with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 ultrawide camera (the one I’ve nicknamed “Raskolnikov”). I posted this shot of Intersection 5 on the social media site…
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The shofar is one of the oldest musical instruments.ย It’s the horn that Joshua blew to knock down the walls at Jericho.ย And the most beautiful shofars in the world came from the heads of rams. During my “Sunday at the Altamont Fair” excursion, in which I spend the entire day at Altamont and experience…
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