Every Day is Father’s Day

My dad: I caught him being a kid again, enjoying the canoe we just got. It was a brief moment I just couldn’t pass up. For those of us who are photographers, we know the moment when it happens and when the moment is caught.  Whenever I see this picture of my dad, that I

The 5 Day B&W Photo Challenge

Some friends and colleagues have been passing around a photo challenge, to post one black and white image every day for five days. Posted on FaceBook among us, we got to see some work from long ago to some from the present with a brief story of why. This was one of mine…” Bonding “

My Next Photography Job

I went to Catholic school. It was small in size, smaller in thinking but I was a wise guy, so for my sins, my parents sentenced me there. My public school brother took shop, made cool things,worked on cars; I marched through Gaul with Caesar and said the rosary. As a small school it drew

Another Job…

I went to Catholic school. It was small in size, smaller in thinking but I was a wise guy, so for my sins, my parents sentenced me there. My public school brother took shop, made cool things,worked on cars; I marched through Gaul with Caesar and said the rosary. As a small school it drew

My First Photography Job

Many of us hold deeply that first job. It was the one that ignited your fire. I wanted to be working for National Geographic…still a prevailing dream ( if it’s that) . My first time out happened when I walked into a county-wide weekly paper to see if they could use a stringer. The editor

Happy Father’s Day…Dad

” Why can’t you turn off the lights when you’re finished?” my dad must have said this a hundred times to me. ” uh…I don’t know…” was always my reply. It was last week when I sat down to pay all my usual bills, one not as usual. It’s summer here in Miami and the

Shooting Bronzini…and others

I was hired to shoot Bronzini. I didn’t know what he did or what he “didn’t do” to call me in. All they told me is that he was coming that morning from either Greece or Italy in the Mediterranean. After the shoot they would put him in “The Freezer” I set it up that

OPENING NIGHT: WORKS IN PROGRESS

OPENING NIGHT: WORKS IN PROGRESS

Collectives

“…the good of the whole benefits the one…” It’s something I always thought and still do.  Sure there are many rugged individuals who like to say they made it all on their own…they’re full of crap. No one really does. We all need each other or better yet, the right others. Groups, societies, clubs associations,

Happy Father’s Day

    I thought I saw my dad. He was standing right in from of me staring me in the face. He seemed slightly different but then again I haven’t seen him in two years. There was a lot to catch up on but it caught me at a sleepy moment. The things he said came