Window Light

This is a really bad scan of my one of my favorite wedding photos from my wedding (see, this was way back when before digital). Eleven years ago, Juan and I married on Canandaguia Lake, NY in a small afternoon celebration. I am looking out of the window at Juan and his brother, standing along the lake edge, waiting for the guests to be…

Smartphone vs. SLR

I was just working with a client, finishing up a shoot of her 8 month old, the last of her six children. She said to me “I had no idea you couldn’t print photos taken on a Smartphone!” She had been documenting her baby’s first year with her phone camera, with an assumption that you can print the images to be high quality, frameable…

Exhale

A wise yoga teacher said yesterday “we are in the exhale”. We crave the heating power of inhalation, the excitement that comes from each new breath, giving the body and mind more energy, one more moment of life. Inhaling can be compared to external living. The heat and fire of summer and fall, socially engaged, busy all the time, staying out late, grinding away…

a roadside in japan

may 1997the first time you “see” outside of the lines is like watching dolphins leap through water. your heart jumps. time stills. there is nothing between you and the image you are about to capture. and it is yours alone.