The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…November, 2019
I became interested in photography as a result of my days in drag racing. A fellow racer was a full-time professional photographer. We became friends and he soon invited me to a monthly meeting of the Connecticut Professional Photographers (CPPA) in New Haven, CT in October 1981. I...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…October, 2019
Block Island Shadows and Stones was made in 1985, barely 4 years after I first learned to develop B&W film. I had no where near the knowledge I do today about negative design, Pyro and different agitation schemes to affect Mid Tone contrast. Nevertheless, the image has stayed with me for 30+ years as an example of dramatic lighting, great composition, and the quality of light and its impact on the final photograph. I was interning for Stelcar Studios, a portrait studio where I...
A Story of Faith with a Miracle or two along the way
My 50th wedding anniversary is a mere 2 weeks after my wife’s 25th Birthday. OK, it’s a hook line to grab your interest. But there is a truth to it if you read on !! To be fair, there is no photography component to this mid-month blog post, photography returns on the 1st of each month. This blog post is a feel-good story, a miracle on several levels if you will. If I lose a few subscribers, well I’ll be a husband and dad for the rest of my life and a photographer falls well short of...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…September, 2019
Seven years ago my wife and I had taken our granddaughters to an annual Hot Air Balloon launch about a half-hour from home, we arrived @ 5:30 in the morning in anticipation of a dawn launch. See attached photos, then and now. Driving down the streets of Plainville CT. in the wee hours of the morning we passed this diner with all the lights off and it did not even catch my eye. The balloon launch did not take too long and we were back on the road looking...