6-5-14 Senior Dinner, Model, Mayhem

If my posts have seemed scattered this week it is just because I am scattered. I have booked more work this week then I have in a long time (good). It is the week before Abigail’s graduation so the events have been flying thick and fast (good). The combination of the two? Not so good for blogging or indeed any form of communication. First picture is yesterday, taken with my Nikon. The others are tonight, taken with my iPhone.






Oh yeah, it is getting weird around here.


5-22-14 This Is The End Of The Beginning


Gilda Radner

Today was my last PA meeting, I assume, ever. Since Abigail entered pre-school there has not been a year when I was not on the PA or PTA or Board but graduation is only 18 days away and last I checked colleges don’t have PAs.

To balance that, Galerie Protégé, 197 Ninth Avenue (at W. 22nd Street), opened the show “Monsters: Curated by Students of The Friends Seminary”. The work shown is by both professional artists and students . It is only up until May 31 but I am lucky enough to have two photographs in the show and the SohoPhoto Gallery Show, “Juried Work: B&H Workshop” continues also through the 31st, so out of nowhere I am in two group shows simultaneously. If you are in the city…check them out!








Second verse, very different from the first…



A few more pictures from yesterday that didn’t quite make the cut but I feel are worth sharing anyway.

People really do their best not to surrender, don’t they?

Thanks for paying attention and doing anything you can to help.


9:00 AM gathering of volunteers


The “Chuck Wagon” or supply bus



We the People, Feed The People



Approximately 1250 feet from the shoreline

Doing homework where you can






Occupy Sandy Relief NYC


New Orleans Slate

11-7-12 Friends Does Its Bit



Then I walked outside to go to my Photoshop class:

5:30PM – 43rd Street and 6th Avenue

Midnight – my street

2-25-11 Soaked To The Bone On Friends Seminary Day in NYC (Bonus Photos!)

Did you know that February 25th, 2011 was declared Friends Seminary Day by Mayor Bloomberg in honor of the School’s 225th anniversary?  Well it was. Friends Seminary

Friday was wet. I was out on the river at the Boat Basin when the weather cleared a bit and the rain stopped.

and this amazing fog/cloud rolled in.

I thought I would walk up the river and shoot and if it did start to rain, I had my raincoat, an umbrella and waterproof shoes.  At about 90th street the sky started getting really dark but, hey, I was only 12 blocks away from the 101st Street underpass and …I had my raincoat, an umbrella and waterproof shoes.  At around 95th Street the wind started to blow hard (I found out later between 40 and 50mph) and I saw this…

and in about 30 seconds it started to rain…sideways …from the river. It turned out that my raincoat didn’t cover all of my legs and my boots while waterproof for puddles, snow, and regular rain had met their match. Luckily, it was blowing from only one direction and as long as I faced the umbrella straight into the wind it was able to protect the camera.  When I finally got under the bridge I was totally soaked. It is now 24 hours later and my boots and raincoat are still wet through.  But, my camera gear is all snug and dry so all is well.