A few days without electricity really makes you realize how much we have come to depend on electrical power to provide the amenities that define modern life. We were fortunate not to have any damage from hurricane / tropical storm Irene, unlike so many of our neighbors. I was assigned to document some of the [more...]
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...]
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...]