photography
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The Risky Advance
About 30 years ago, while a frigid cold winter was invading the New York Metro area, I was expressing my disgust with my grandfather about the weather when he turned around and said “the Hudson River is beginning to freeze over with solid ice.” “What?” I asked incredulously. He responded in his diphtheria afflicted voice,…
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The Photographic Trope
Tim Carpenter, photographer and author, has published a book titled: To Photograph is To Learn How to Die. This book dances around many of my thoughts when considering the motives and goals of my photography. I will try my best to paraphrase his work and if possible, dovetail it into my own simpler, if not…
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Building Bridges
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”- Rita Mae Brown Recently I have been culling through old photos and came to the conclusion that my photography, and its subjects, hasn’t dramatically changed in the past 10 years. It’s as if I am a mad man,…
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Some BS from the Bf
Speaking to self: “I’m going to use that 24mm I bought when I purchased the camera and try for some dramatic photos of landscape. And you know what else? Maybe I could stop off in a small town and come up with some interesting photos of the place on the way to the reservoir/lake.” Problem…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 