Hi Everyone, I have been offline for the last few days and just wanted to say hi. Between Photo East Expo here in NYC and preparation for the workshop I have been totally swamped. There was no time to get any new articles posted, but there is new material coming this way. One awesome thing [more...]
Reflected Light A photographer on the street needs to be resourceful. Without the aid of assistants or studio lighting, we must find light sources in unlikely places. Once we discover that a building can be a reflector, it allows us to break the monotony of flat shadows caused by the sun. Fill Light Broad [more...]
Free Prints for You Shooting great images is only half of the fun. Its not until we make a print that we can truly appreciate a photograph. Ilford Sponsorship: Better than Candy I am very excited to announce an addition to the Halloween Workshop [ NYC ]. Ilford Galerie decided to sponsor the [more...]
The Picture that Changed It All When in the course of human events…no wait thats a different speech. In our lives there will be a handful of photographs which flip the light switch of creativity. These “Ah Ha” moments forever change the way we view picture making. My Hero is an Alcoholic, Druggie [more...]
Through Danny Lyon Last week, I slept on ceremonial Hopi Land in northern Arizona. Prior to leaving, photographer Danny Lyon and I sat in a park on Mulberry Street. He said something that stuck with me. But it was not until I travelled half way across the country that his Walt Whitman quote sank into [more...]
Finding Calm In Chaos I am not sure why this did not come to me earlier, but Halloween is the perfect time for a Street Photography Workshop. Its one of the few holidays where everyone wants to have their pictures taken. This makes it a perfect time to hit the streets and work on spotting [more...]
My New Case Today the FedEx lady surprised me. I was not expecting any packages today, but much to my surprise there was a delivery from Rome. It could mean only one thing… Leica M9 Half Case Last month while in Rome, my girlfriend and I dropped in on Luigi Crescenzi (the story is here). [more...]
New York Can Be A Dangerous Place On Saturday, I went downtown to drop off a few rolls of BW film to be developed. The sign on the door read “The C-Lab is CLOSED.” Is this for real? New York City is a Strange Place The streets of New York can be so bizarre. Today [more...]