Our photogenic little swamp maple is just popping baby leaves and the afternoon sun allowed me to get under it and get some shots of leaves with light behind them.

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One of our other young peach trees is blooming. Each of these flower buds is potentially a peach if the bees come by and do their thing. This branch will need to be propped up if it produces as many as it might.

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The peaches are finally popping so I put the big lens on the camera, put the camera on the tripod and tip-toed through the dewy backyard in slippers and bathrobe to attempt an early morning image of peach blossoms waking up. This image is cropped. Tomorrow I’ll go back out with a macro lens and [...]

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Edward Burtynsky is a world-renowned Canadian photographer who specializes in industrial landscapes. His series on quarries is incredible as are all of his other works.

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We were down in Waterbury, Connecticut, a small city an hour south of us, standing in the parking lot after dinner out and I noticed the sky and clouds were changing color rapidly. I got my camera out, switched lenses and took some shots and as I was scanning I caught this pole with transformers [...]

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I had just exited the subway on my way to another train north toward home when I noticed that the main room at Grand Central Station looked darker than usual, almost sepia and that sepia light was reflecting on the marble countertop. This reminded me that my parents and their parents probably stood at this [...]

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A friend had a whole tray of these amazing plants. Some were buds, some opened into beautiful flowers. The flower shots didn’t work out well but this bud with the other stems behind it did.

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Walking past the famous Booth Theater on 45th Street, just off Broadway I noticed a reflection of the marquee in a bus parked right in front of it. We were on our way to see Avenue Q but Faith Healer looks like a winner as well. Ralph Fiennes and Cherry Jones are incredible actors.

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My father served in the US Army during World War II and was stationed in Europe. This little Zeiss Ikon was the camera he used to record his everyday life over there and I have a box of prints that give me a glimpse of that life. My father is gone now but this camera [...]

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Mid-town Manhattan is full of glass box office buildings that provide numerous opportunities for these types of optical illusions. The illusions and grid patterns make fascinating images.

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Once you see the possibilities of using window grids and reflections, almost any block in mid-town Manhattan provides interesting possibilities.

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Rachel Papo’s collection of photographs of female Israeli soldiers: Serial Number 3817131 is fascinating and I’m working hard to come up with a way to describe it. Here’s a cute Israeli girl with braces talking on her cell phone with a rather large rifle slung over her shoulder. The complexity of the back story for [...]

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Vitamin is a new online magazine and resource for web designers, developers, and anyone using the web to share information. It’s full of great articles and information by some of the leading designers on the web. It has RSS feeds and Podcasts for all of its content. The site design is easy on the eyes [...]

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Smithsonian Magazine has posted the winners in their 3rd annual Photo Contest. Spectacular photography.

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I’m standing on the corner of 42nd St. and Avenue of the Americas just inside Bryant Park, looking uptown through the “canyon” with the Empire State Building reflection on the side of one of its walls. Combine glass building surfaces and close proximity and you get fascinating views, uptown, downtown, and both simultaneously.

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I don’t smoke, never have, and probably never will. However, at parties when the smokers go outside, I tend to follow. Why? The smokers are interesting people with great stories and kind hearts. I felt so strongly about this that I married one*. This is her hand and cigarette on 7th Avenue in New York. [...]

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This goblet belonged to my grandmother. We don’t use it much and it lives in a cupboard most of the time but bringing it out for a fancy compote brings my grandmother to mind, which is nice.

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Standing on the island in the middle of Times Square (New York) I caught a glimpse of Anne reflected in Bill’s sunglasses. I took the shot quickly before Bill could complain and didn’t notice the mother dragging her reluctant son behind Anne. You can see an ad for Avenue Q, the play we had just [...]

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Walking across town I came across a very nice Harley with a chromed “German-shaped” helmet tied to the back. The city (and me) reflected in the helmet was too good to resist.

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5th Avenue was decked out in tulips for the Easter parade and celebration today. I asked Anne (ignorantly) if those bulbs had wintered in the big flower pots and she said probably, not, they were “forced.” I’m thinking guy with a gun saying “get into those pots or else!” Note: we were on our way [...]

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