The Story Behind the Image

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 oc

My birthday was a few weeks ago and I never ask for presents, except for this one time. I told my wife that I did not want her to buy my gift by herself - rather get people like my daughters or whoever else to chip in to get me a camera I really wanted. I had spent sometime combing through ebay an

New edit from the Abstract/bottle series. This is a full frame image with minimal post processing. (Levels, saturation in PS.) The image is older studio work that used readily available props. 2 - empty bottles, 2 - glass bricks and 2 LED lamps that automatically varied in colors, projected on a w

Hedy at the piano mourning the loss of her true love. The back and rim lighting and the almost silhouette look gave this image a place in my "Contemplative" portfolio.

I long wanted to do a portrait emulating a portrait by PreRaphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose work I love. I needed a model with white skin and long Venitain reddish blond and curly hair, a rare thing! I placed an ad in the local paper as I knew no one like that. This exceptionally beau

Jillian has always been my number one model. We've shot many many times and had become friends. She has always been up for any screwball ideas I'd come up with. In this shoot, I wanted to do a series that was lit from below. I had several glass sheets that were a full 1-inch thick and could take my

The story behind the image starts with scouting areas. I am familiar with this large area called Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. During the summer, the meadow is filled with various green and yellow colors. When a professional model who is also a good friend of mine visited me, I

I do not shoot people, but I use many subjects as Models...they are Animals, and I capture them with human-like expressions. My ongoing Series: "Of The Wild" features close-up intimate Portraits of Animals that were once wild but now live in some form of captivity. I ensure the facilities are accred

I see things through the prism and mindset of a photojournalist. But like all of the most of the greatest photojouralists, such as Mary Ellen Mark, Alex Webb, Bruce Davidson, William Albert Allard, and most of all, Cartier-Bresson, I hope they translate into fine art. With that said, I'm not sure t

Shot in Capetown for Milk Magazine in Paris. I wanted an American looking neighborhood and shot an 8 page story about Pippy Long Stocking robbing a bank and the consequences. In this photo she is riding away with her cash. Natural daylight filled in with a portable flash. Kodak film , Camera Mamiya

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

Bookmark #5, 2010. My organizational skill for organizing my photography is minimal. 50 years ago, I would put all my negatives in a shoebox in the University darkroom. Unfortunately, they were all lost. 20 years ago, I still used a shoebox, and prints were scattered on my office floor. 15 years a

I was at the Jazz Age Lawn Party, on Governor's Island a couple of weeks ago. It's great to be at an event where people want to be photographed, makes my job a lot easier. This was my third visit to this event and the subjects are plentiful. I have put together this video with my photographs

As I enjoy the western life style, I have come to Live, Travel and Work in the American Mountain West and Western Prairies. On a recent traveling workshop to a friends horse ranch in South Dakota, I photographed Ranch life style and rural life both in the present and past with participation of Cowbo

By the nature of my job, I deal with a few unexpected challenges every day. Solving those challenges on time is something I do well, and I enjoy it. I have a family with kids, and we have a lot of hobbies but very little time. I rarely plan shoots in detail because it takes too much time and effort.

After working on my first group of the wine reflection series of images, I did a number of studio pictures of wine bottles with various colored backgrounds. Simple in presentation, I looked past them and moved on. I am now revisiting the series and have created my view of wine and their bottles th

In 'working' on my photo personality, I've found that everyday people and ordinary objects play a large role in images I choose to make. This image, unscripted, directed or rehearsed is of two workers at a Taco Bar in Cancun, Mexico. (In a short 12-minute period I shot over 100 images in the restaur

I was shooting a French Catalog for La Redoute in South Africa. When the catalog was finished, my stylist and I decided to stay a few more days in Cape Town and shoot a couple of Kids Fashion stories and try and get them published back in Paris. We got both stories published, this one for Extra Sma

Two in the Plasma Series. I've always admired painters, sculptures, and other visual artists as they can imagine an image and then create it in their style with paint, ink, metal or stone. As a photographer, sometimes I feel limited as I need to physically see (find) or contrive(create/arrange) the

This is an evolving series. The above image is of an abandon building in Cripple Creek Colorado, 2009. (Composite - sky overlay. Canon - A540.) The Machine, view one. Tower Bridge Little Rock, Arkansas, 2015. Sometimes looking up will give you the best image, The Machine, view two. Colorado

I am constanly shooting people on the streets, parks and museums of New York, which may be my favorite place, at least for now. It was only after photographing both of the women in these photos that I found out they are models after looking at their instagram accounts. I did not have the time in e

Almost every day, I'll go on a photo walk-a-bout, looking for an image that catches my eye. Somedays, I see nothing worth recording; on others 'It's an aha moment.' I've made coconut palm pictures for a number of years, some better than others. This image was found just before noon at The Westin Lag

If you ever so a RAID pest control commercial, you probably have seen the animated bugs created by Don Pegler, who was an illustrator at FCB Advertising. That's where I worked for a good part of my career. Don had a great sense of humor, which is evident from his characters that had unique personali

I was in Miami and I discussed with my makeup artist, Stephen Ramsey, to do a test shooting around an old Miami Motel. We found this great model Molly, went to a vintage clothing shop, and styled ourselves this shooting. French Photo Magazine published the photos and did a full article about me. Wel

I shot a polaroid of my pregnant wife in our kithchen cooking, wearing the same outfit she has in this photo. I decided a few days later to shoot her again with film and added my son on his horse and her with the TV remote changing channels in our Paris apartment. I used my Norman 200B portable fla