Saturday, December 4, 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.

Sunday, April 4, 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

Saturday, April 3, 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.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.