“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Samuel Johnson
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We started our adventure in Lausanne, staying in the tower of a lakeside castle at Château d'Ouchy with spectacular views of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) and the Alps.
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It was the movie "In Bruges," made in 2008 with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, that prompted us to say, “Let’s go there some day.”
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During a portraiture workship in Brooklyn last year, I was fortunate enough to spent a good part of it with Tyler, an extraordinarily photogenic young man. This image of him was my favorite; it’s that moment between poses —the pause—that somehow reveals a soul, in a quiet way.
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The couple in “Waimanalo Gothic” are actually dear family friends.
When they told us they were engaged to be married, I jumped at the chance to memorialize this milestone. I love that their playfulness emerges without even a hint of a grin in this formal composition.
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I was able to catch this Polynesian young man – far from home but never far from phone – pondering in the shade before the start of the King Kamehameha Day parade in downtown Honolulu.
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I photographed this striking Hawaiian warrior, wearing a traditional helmet, at the start of the parade honoring Kamehameha the Great, the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Assignment: Capture the carnivalesque essence of the city – its places and faces – in a few short days.
Camera of choice: Mirrorless Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III with a 12-100mm zoom lens.
I arrived at the Festival Capital of the World in time to catch the Annual Gay Easter Parade, stayed through the French Quarter Fest, and left before even bigger crowds descended for the Jazz Festival.
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I was photographing a ground blessing in the Papakōlea neighborhood for a new home to be built for a multi-generation family with the help of volunteers from Honolulu Habitat for Humanity. As I was packing up to leave the site, so was the family.
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As part of my “Backyard Geographic” series, I have been looking for opportunities to create photographs without getting on a plane during the Covid pandemic.
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Positioning myself at the top of a parking garage, I framed the shot and waited patiently for a passerby to hit his mark. The marks on the sidewalk and the converging lines of the curb cuts suggest that the subject is an actor on a stage, referencing the Hawaii Theater without identifying it by name.
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Kia Ora, Air New Zealand’s in-flight magazine, featured this image on their back page. It was one of several that I took from a helicopter on a trip to the northern part of the southern island.
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In May 2021, my wife and I took our post-Covid-lockdown, vaccinated bodies to a neighbor island to celebrate my 70th birthday.
It was our first time off the rock in 15 months.
Read MoreOn a pre-Covid-19 trip with my wife to Turkey, our departing flight to Cappadocia through Istanbul (the world’s largest airport) was delayed for over an hour. So… despite running breathlessly through IST from one terminal to the next, we missed our connection. The good news: we got rebooked a few hours later on a flight departing at 1:15 in the morning.
Read MoreNot just any market. This is the Edirnekapı Kuş Pazarı, otherwise known as the Bird Market, which takes place every Sunday in Istanbul. Hundreds of men gather here (I didn’t see a single woman) to buy and sell pigeons, which go for anywhere between the equivalent of $3 and $300 U.S. dollars.
Read MoreOn this trip sponsored by “The Nation” magazine, my wife and I traveled by bus over eight days to four states we had never visited before, didn’t sleep much, learned a ton, ate mostly fried food, got to know 27 traveling companions, and met with individuals at each stop who told us very personal stories about their experiences with racism. What we saw was unforgettable and unforgivable.
Read MoreShooting street art on buildings, I find something new every time I turn a corner. I became intrigued by the juxtaposition of the murals with each other along with the architecture and the people in the neighborhood.
Read More“Crop till it hurts.”
I don’t remember when I first heard that advice. Let’s just say it’s been a while…
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