Wow! What a day! Not exactly a typical photography day, for certain. But a day that challenged the very thought of photography. As important as photography is to me it became very clear yesterday when my wife, carrying groceries into the house took a header on the concrete steps. Thanks to the good people at […]
My friend Sue Morison will photograph almost anything, except weddings, she says. A few days after a session on close-up and macro photography at my Getting Ready for Winter Photography workshop earlier this month she was out with here camera putting it through its paces on Syracuse, NY’s Clinton Square. This is the first year […]
I know a lot of photographers who wish they had the headstart on their photographic journey. Today, I was working on a self-assigned photo project at the Everson Museum. I’m amazed every time I visit this local gem. It’s always new. There’s always something fresh to explore. Today my mission was to photograph the experience […]
It’s easy to consider a workshop full once we’ve received enough registrations to max-out the capacity of the workshop leader(s) to effectively work with everyone who’s participating. I guess, from one perspective that’s a good measure. There’s another measure that may even be more critical, however, especially participants. That’s the workshop agenda. Now I’m making […]
On this Holy Saturday of Easter weekend, as I enjoyed my morning walk I was thinking, appropriately enough, about all the blessings of the events of this Holy Week, both historically and in my life today. As I contemplated the events of this week and the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, the […]
We’ve had an evening and a morning shoot to open our stint at Death Valley National Park. It was still windy and cold, however, it’s warmed up this afternoon. It’s about 1 pm as I write this. Last night, after our drive from Joshua Tree, through the Mojave (see the featured photo above) we decided […]
Some 3,300 miles of driving took us past many photo opportunities without stopping to take even a single click. I’ve pledged to myself that I will return with more time. The important thing is we (my friend Mike Berg from Alexandria, VA and I) made it to California in good time and have an evening […]
This has been a heck of a few weeks. First, while on a recent canoe trip/photo shoot in the St. Regis area of the northern Adirondacks, all of a sudden my 12-24 mm lens stopped auto focusing. The next week, somehow a new Phottix Aion Wireless Timer and Shutter Release broke loose from the hot shoe on […]
This past Sunday, my wife and I arose early to catch the 6:35 am train from Syracuse to New York City’s Penn Station. We had been invited to visit friends Harvey and Anna Kopel in Manhattan and were very much looking forward to our visit. While we certainly expected it to be an enjoyable visit, […]
I’m getting ready to head out to my garden shed and do some spring prep-work on my lawn tractor. It needs new belts, a new oil filter, who knows what else and I want to have that all taken care of before spring arrives. Now is that forward thinking, or what? At any rate, taking […]