Monthly Archives: July 2011

Finally, a hotel with style…

Most of my time away travelling is spent in pursuit of my objective: making the best pictures I can for my translites. But sometimes I take a detour. For twenty-seven years of my career as a translite photographer, I dragged … Continue reading

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String theory, a new way to see people…

Some ideas take a while to percolate. Guess that is a word that is out of use. Hint: it has something to do with old fashioned coffee makers… So, on this one, I go a ways back. All the way … Continue reading

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Vintage cities show their roughness in lovely ways…

People and buildings may not look much alike, but we can appreciate both for similar reasons: their roughness. Let’s have a look. My travels sometimes take me to interesting places. I look at location photography from a completely self-focused perspective, … Continue reading

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Making connections…

So today I will talk about somebody who knows how to make connections. More about that in a New York minute… Ken Hardy is a regular guy who works hard every day at a job he loves. Of late he … Continue reading

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Another guy named Dick…er, Richard

You may not know his name, but you have seen his style. Another guy who called me Dick. We Dicks get along fine with one another. I see that a news reader got into serious hot water of the name … Continue reading

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Just the house across the street…

Sometimes I shoot pictures of the proverbial “house across the street.” Okay, mostly boring stuff… It happens that a production designer wants a translite photo backing of the house just opposite the “hero” location. This can be at street level … Continue reading

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