Merry Christmas! -Dusk over Richmond Park, December 2010.

First snowfall

When we look, longer than a glance, we see so much more. I like this image for a few reasons. As a kid I remember waiting for the snow. I would look out my window into the night and search for light from the street lamps to see if the light was catching snowfall. There was something about the snow under this particular street lamp that looked like stars around the moon. My daughter thought the snow fall looked like fairies flying everywhere. There is something quite magical about snow, that's for sure.

Trio of textures and landscape. India, Garhwal Himalayas-2009

Walking in rain -London-2009

Walking on rocks -Italy-2009

Fall in Richmond Park -November, 2009

Looking down -Dorset England, October 2010

Shapes in the sand, Jurassic coast, England 2010

Fall sunset, Dorset countryside, October 2010

universal skies in the sand... Jurassic coast-England 2010

Fall sky over Jurassic Coast, England -October 2010

The path to landslide housing -More from Cinque Terre, Italy April 2010

Living on the Edge- Cinque Terre, April 2010

Peace Lily

Shadow steps on Richmond bike path -Richmond Park April, 2010

Spring reflections over a french fishing river -France, April 2010

The Beekeeper -Cinque Terre, Italy, 2010

Sunset over Cinque Terre, Italy, 2010

The underbelly of a boat -Cinque Terre, Italy, 2010

A chance encounter with a peacock at Kew Gardens

There is a story that goes along with this bird, and I have my daughter
to thank for it. She was off quietly admiring a sculpture in an enclosed
part of the botanical garden when this peacock spotted her from 10
feet above and decided to leap down and say hello. She was still, the
bird between me and her, it walked around her and then suddenly
opened it's feathers. We were very still and very quiet, she inched back
towards me and said that for her first time seeing a peacock it was a
little scary but very "boofufal" (that's beautiful, she's 5 and often has
a stuffed up nose). Lugging the camera around isn't always fun, but
moments like this make it seem worth it.

Peacock Surprise -Kew Gardens, Easter 2010

Reflection in Black and Blue

Not advised: Photos from the dashboard

Some of my favorite shots have come from being a passenger, though I admit, I took this one while driving.
At least there was, as usual, pleanty of traffic on this summer drive back to New York from Vermont.

Looking up. -Vermont, 2006

Strange clouds and colors over the city. -New York, June 2009

London Architecture, London 2009

Connemara Tree, Ireland -summer 2009

The silent way to take a stand...New York City, 2007

Leaf in Lucy's Garden, Thanksgiving 2007

Cotton Fields of Louisiana, 2007

Natures Graph, Italy -2001

Abruzzo, Italy (2001)

Women of the foothills, India -March 2009

Himalayan Looms, India -March 2009

Swanage coastline, Dorset, England. February, 2010

Notes before a wedding -Brooklyn, New York, 2009

One of my favorite weddings to have photographed so far, full of love and music. -taken December 2008, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Icy Reflections -Richmond, England 2010

The below image was taken at sunset in Richmond park. A small icy pond near Cambrian Gate offered up it's own version of what
might have otherwise been another overcast winter sunset.

Snow! -Windsor Schoolyard, taken from Windsor castle up above.

One of the highlights from the Queen's home -I had fun this January while visiting Windsor Castle observing this bunch. I have
about 10 shots and of course, in each shot the kids have moved around to different corners of the playground. What an abundance
of energy, even in the cold. I love the idea of photography from up above, the subjects are mostly unaware (though in this shot you
can find one little boy in the bottom right corner who spotted me), but normally at a different range I have a better chance at catching
more natural behavior.

B&W or Color?

Below is an image on the same day in the same neighborhood of the Garhwal Himalayas.

Garhwal Himalayas

Little Buddha -Dehradun, India (Og Min Ogyen Mindrolling Monastery) March 2009

An example of Altered and Unaltered night photography -Image taken on Monhegan Island July 2008

The unaltered version.
I once thought that Photography had to be utterly pure, natural light, no filters, no flash, taken on manual settings etc. just completely natural. Of course that is all very important. However, it seems important as well to have a second look at the way we could have taken the shot, of how we could otherwise have interpreted what was before our eyes. When I took these shots it was very dark and I was already forcing the camera to take in more than was visible to my eye. And even though I know the landscape, I wanted to keep it dark, to convey the silence and seclusion that is sometimes Monhegan Island.

An example of Altered and Unaltered night photography...

The altered version.

Catskills Lightning -Summer 2008 Ashokan Reservoir

Himalayas -March 2009

 

Borough Market

Kids storm British Museum-London, November 2009

St.Paul's -London, November 2009

Snowy evening in Richmond Park

Parisian graffiti- Paris December 2009