Nov 282011
 
Timing and Luck

A week without power due to the freak October storm really scrambled our deadline driven business, and blog entries fell to the wayside. A last minute assignment with hundreds of images had to be processed and edited on my laptop when there was no power. While keeping a weary eye on the quickly draining battery, [more...]

 November 28, 2011  Editorial, Education Tagged with:  8 Responses »
Dec 062010
 
Hall Wars !

Quinnipiac University students compete to see who can reach the farthest while being held back by a large elastic band. When I was a young intern photojournalist at the Hartford Courant, a senior photographer told me that the first rule is that you either you gotta find the picture or make one. These days it [more...]

 December 6, 2010  Education, Events, People Tagged with:  10 Responses »
Oct 312010
 
The Bokeh of the Bouquet

The cover of Choate Rosemary Hall’s fall issue of The Bulletin features an image I took during their graduation ceremonies in June. The unaltered close-up image of the traditional red rose worn by the graduating class has an interesting quality due the lens’ “bokeh”. Bokeh, as Wikipedia describes it better “is the blur, or the [more...]