The Story Behind the Image

A Toast To Tony Via Me From Scorcese!

I had just walked up the stairs of the Astor Place Station and pulled my camera out of my bag. As I turned and looked around for what to shoot - right behind me was the silhouette of a girl on her cell phone. I quickly focused, took my reading, advanced the film and shot. Then she moved from where she was standing. I ran around to where she was and explained it all to her but also told her that I was shooting film and wasn't quite sure that photo I took will come out as I want it to since I rushed to take it not to miss the moment. I asked to take a few more and she agreed. I called her on her cell phone to give her direction as I shot another three or four images. We exchanged phone numbers and off I …

For the first day of this new year, 2025, I take you back to 1983, when by some great fortune, I gained access to the opening day of the Atlanta Braves season. My eyes were attentive mostly to the music scene in Atlanta, GA, where I honed my craft for a few years before moving to NYC. However, on occasion, I would take on other subject matter, including at the time, baseball. Not so much the game itself, although there were those images, but the scenes behind the bat. On this occasion, the ex President, Jimmy Carter, the first that I had voted for, as age allowed was in attendance. Not only the President, but his beloved wife Rosalyn and Ted Turner who owned the Braves and a transistor radio so he could listen to the Atlanta Hawks, another team he owned, while watching the action on the field. In…

I've always liked images that were made with Kodak High Contrast Copy film. Although I tried to duplicate the darkroom results using Tri-X and developing in Dia-Fine or Accu-Fine. I was never able to achieve the exactness of a copy film. Yesterday using a Topaz Lab plug-in in Photoshop I discovered this. Tech - Canon EOS 1n, negative digitally scanned. (No AI)