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The Super Blood Wolf Moon
Photographing the Super Blood Wolf Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse of January 2019 in NYC Area I’ll start with a question. Why do (total) lunar eclipses always have to take place on the coldest nights of the year? Last one I photographed happened on the night of winter solstice 2010. And I froze then, as ...
Sigma 105mm f/1.4 – First Impressions
Sigma 105mm f/1.4 for Nikon – First Impressions My very first prime lens was a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 lens, but, as a portrait photographer I’ve always wanted a prime f/1.4 lens. And so this past year, I spent months researching, considering and reconsidering my options. While there’re several prime f/1.4 lenses ideal for portrait photography, ...
2019 Resolutions
My New Year’s Resolutions First of all, I wish you all a wonderful New Year and hope that 2019 will be a good year for all of us. Also, many thank you for reading this blog. I truly appreciate it! New Year’s resolutions are like “droplets of hope” at the start of a new chapter ...
Remember: One More Look at Kurt Weston’s AIDS Retrospective Photographs
Remember: An AIDS Memorial Retrospective – 12/1/18 – 12/29/18 One More Look at Some of Kurt Weston’s AIDS Retrospective Photographs This weekend, on December 29, Kurt Weston’s photography show, Remember: An AIDS Memorial Retrospective comes to an end. That means, there is still time to stop by the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art and ...
Merry Christmas!
A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! It’s Christmas Day, and so I wish you all who celebrate a very Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays, too. Frohe Weihnachten! Joyeux Noël Feliz natal! and Feliz Navidad! Craciun Fericit! Buon Natale! Mele Kalikimaka!
Kurt Weston: The Making of the Blind Vision Photography Series
A look back at the Blind Vision series of black-and-white self-portraits by award-winning photographer Kurt Weston I wrote about award-winning, legally blind photographer Kurt Weston and his Blind Vision series of black-and-white self-portraits, as well as about other images by the same artist in the November 2005 issue of A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. Here are ...
2018 – Highlights
Looking Back at My 2018 As the year draws to an end, I’d like to share with you a few of what I consider my highlights of this year. Interviewing and photographing the amazing artist, author and activist Avram Finkelstein for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. Photographing the blood supermoon lunar eclipse: Reconnecting with the Orange ...
