A Tribute To My Brother Jim He worked with John Lennon, Peter Gabriel, Bob Ezrin (The Wall/Pink Floyd), Alice Cooper, Bay City Rollers, Doctor John, Bob Seger, Burton Cummings/The Guess Who and many, many others. Dateline: August 1957. Location: Living room, 17 Summit Avenue, Larchmont, a bedroom community in Westchester County, 22 miles north of […]
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My Dick, The Holywood Movie Producer and the Silver Mercedes Benz
A Memoir You’re probably wondering why such a strange title? There’s a reason. Let’s take it one step at a time, starting with My Dick. When I was twelve or thirteen years old, my family was living in Westchester County, a bedroom suburb north of New York City. My father, a musician who had morphed […]
How I Tried To Become A Photographer
After graduating university studying Business Administration and Philosophy, I did the only logical thing I could think of; try to become a photographer. The decision happened one beautiful morning when I woke up and looked out of the window and saw the wonderful colours of the blue sky, green grass, trees and flowers, and […]
My Colette Experience
ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Lady Gaga accused of ripping off Colette! “Lady Gaga has been accused of ripping off performance artist Leigh Bowery’s costumes, Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier bodysuit, and the late Isabella Blow’s outrageous hats. Now downtown New York multimedia artist Colette, who had her pieces shown at the Guggenheim and MOCA L.A. in the […]
Yorkville Street Beasts
The Sound Of The Hound One summer afternoon, while sipping a cappuccino at a café in the tony Yorkville section of Toronto, I heard a number of exotic cars tooling by. I observed this road show for a while, and more and more hyper cool exotics seemed to roll by. I decided to take a […]
A New View
Always look for a new way to look at old things. Look up, look down, crawl around it…you may very well find a new view. The rather dumb shot on the left side was drastically transformed into a statement seen on the right. I shot the bells from directly underneath with a bit of flash […]
It’s About Time(ing)
They say “pictures are made, not taken.” There’s wisdom in that old saw. Sure, anyone can point a camera and record data (aka a snapshot), but the timing of when you snap the shutter is critical. Snap it at the right time and you’ve made, not taken, a photograph. Henry Cartier-Bresson was good at making […]
A Word About Your Camera Strap
If you are using one of those brightly coloured “brand advertising” straps, you’ll get noticed pretty quickly, not only by possible subjects but by potential camera thieves as well. If you’re looking to steal the moment, you must be as unobtrusive as possible. So trash that “glow- in-the-dark” strap for a thin black one (these […]
Too Shy To Speak To The Guy?
The best way to open dialogue with a male or female is to offer a compliment. Everybody loves a compliment. For this example, I simply asked the obvious and said, “ Excuse me, but where did you get that T-shirt? I want one too!” Hint: females love to be complimented on their hair or shoes. […]
