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This is a page that contains all of my pictures. These are pictures I've taken for fun, and, for the most part, are not images I shot while 'on the job.'
To see more of my images, you can go find them in my PhotoShelter Archive. |
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Chicago Underground
This long underground walkway connects the CTA Blue Line with the rest of the Loop. One day I had a camera with me, and this unbrella-carrying man seemed to make this scene just interesting enough to shoot a picture. I have no idea who he is. Do you?
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All Students Gone
OK, this image is reaching back pretty damn far into my past. I shot it in 1984 when I was a senior at Ward Melville High School. It was the end of the day - all the students finally gone - and one of the janitors was making his way down the hall, cleaning up the debris of the day. Although I used to shoot pictures constantly for the High School newspaper, I don't think this image was ever actually used. At least I don't remember it ever being used. |
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Amsterdam Prostitutes
While walking through the streets of Amsterdam's Red Light District in October of 2000, I couldn't resist taking at least one picture. Well, here it is. Women of the night. Workin' hard for their money. So hard for it, honey.
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Rte. 25A, Port Jefferson
Back where I grew up and went to school, learned to drive, felt my first parking ticket, and "cruised for girls" by driving the car real slow while my friend hung out the window and called out "Hey, baby... yo! Come OVAH HEE-ah!", Route 25A was integral to everyday life because it ran along the Northern Shore of Long Island, connecting all of the towns. Of course, calling out the window to women never really worked, and we eventually figured this out. Recently, actually. But what does any of this have to do with this particular picture? Uh, well, nothing really. Sorry about that.
This picture was shot around July 4th 1986, in downtown Port Jefferson - where just a few years earlier we yelled out the window attempting to "get lucky."
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Beach Walk
While walking with my friend Lisa along the Ocean in San Francisco one day, I saw this image and shot it. The footprints you see include the ones we made a few minutes earlier while we were walking in the opposite direction. |
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Dog Meat
Near the end of the Summer 2000, I attended a party of skater kids at an apartment on Treasure Island. They actually turned the entire backyard (from one side of the fence to the other) into a giant half-pipe and kids with skinned knees and elbows would make a pilgrimage to this apartment as if it were skater Mecca. Anyway - just outside the front door, some grilling of animal parts was going on. The dog looks hungry for this, and I bet he's thinking: "OK, I've got a chance here. There could be a spill, or a kind donation, or someone could walk away from their plate to get another beer out of the cooler and I can make my move... whatever it is, I've gotta keep my eyes on this. This could be BIG." |
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Flowers for Valentine's Day
OK, so it is Valentines Day today, and here I am posting a flower picture. I sure hope none of my "guy friends" see this. But anyway - there is something about this picture that, when I saw it on the sidewalk a few years ago, I just had to stop and shoot. (And I NEVER take pictures of flowers! Just ask my mom!) I made an exception in this case. This lone red flower somehow managed to find its way into the middle of these smaller, very different flowers and it is this contrast that makes it beautiful. It is not the same as all the others - it is different. Very different, and therefore, very special. For me, this lone red flower stands for individuality, being unique, being different in many ways, and being proud and brave and happy about it. Because not only is this flower beautiful because it is a flower, it is also beautiful because it is different, and it isn't afraid to be different. Happy Valentines Day. |
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Inside Looking Out
Sometimes I think my friends are annoyed with how I bring my digital camera everywhere. But there are images happening all over the place! How could I not?
Like this one. We were sitting there, having a few drinks in San Francisco, and I was distracted by the scene above. I put the camera on the table to keep it real still (it was dark in there!) and shot this picture of a woman trying to decide if she wanted to go inside by looking in and looking at the kinds of people who were already inside. And there we were, inside, looking back at her. She didn't come inside. |
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Jumper
This picture was shot during the Summer of 2000, at a parade in San Francisco's Mission District. (I feel bad for not knowing the name of the event, by the way.) I saw this guy eyeballing the police fence, looking to make sure the coast was clear, and thought it would make a nice image if I could get him in mid-air. I used a Leica M6 to shoot one frame, and got a little lucky. |
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Stop The Killing
I remember taking this picture back in 1986, in my hometown (Stony Brook, Long Island) when I had no opinion of my own about a woman's right to choose. This was my first-ever encounter with pro-life demonstrators, and in the years following I attended more and more of these kinds of events - photographing them for the various newspapers I worked for. Meeting these people, listening to them describe their 'cause' helped to make me realize that I was a pro-choice person. These people - all men except for one woman, stood outside a medical clinic along a very active highway with signs like these. |
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Kitty Prison
This picture, taken in Flint, Michigan around 1991 (could have been 1990, too - memory failing - getting old) was shot in a Flint-area Animal Shelter. One of the regular things we newspaper photographers need to do is photograph the "Pet Of The Week" to continuously remind people that there are cute living things that are available for adoption. Doesn't it look like a prison? |
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Ladder Crossing
I worked weekends as a photographer for the Chillicothe Gazette from 1986 to 1987. It was an hour's drive away from Athens, where I was going to college. This picture was shot one day as I was driving around "downtown" Chillicothe, looking for a picture because looking for pictures was what I was supposed to be doing. But I never used this one - never turned it in - it never appeared in the newspaper. |
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Horse Show
This picture was taken on a weekend, early in the morning sometime in 1999. For me, "weekend" and "morning" don't usually mix. However, I went to this Barrington (Illinois), equestrian event with a friend and as I was walking around, I shot this picture. Now, don't get me wrong - I don't think it's the greatest picture in the world or anything, but I liked the three layers in this image (the horse and rider in the background, the man watching in the middle, and the dog closer to the camera.) And, hey - this is my site, so I can post whatever I want - so here it is. |
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Surprising Mara
So, get this... I hadn't seen Mara in a while - she was in NYC for a while, I was out of town for a while... it all had something to do with the holidays. But one day, as I am using the SF BART (train) I see her - but she doesn't yet see me! So I grab my camera, hold it at about chest level (not actually looking through it, because that would block my face and make it too difficult to recognize me) and yell out "excuse me, excuse me!!" as I walked quickly towards her. She looks up, and for an instant looks like she is wondering what the hell is going on... but then suddenly she figures it out and her face totally lights up - and the camera at chest-level fires right at this very instant. Perfect timing, huh? After I got on the train, I looked at the image (perks of a digital camera) and saw this picture. Out of focus, motion blurred - big deal... look at her expression. How cool is that? (Thanks Mara!)
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Metreon Man
I don't know if it is "cool" or not to admit this, but I actually like the Metreon, in San Francisco. That's where I shot this image - April 1, 2002, on the way in to see a movie. There's much to be excited about inside this movie-theater/Sony corporation monopoly gone mad. Sushi, overpriced video games, affordable parking across the street - and - best of all - stadium seating to help combat high-hair movie blockage. They've thought of everything. |
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Mexican Restaurant
I used a Lomo (Russian camera - really cheap) to shoot this picture inside a very dark mexican restaurant in San Francisco in early January, 2000. This place (La Rondella) makes really powerful margaritas, which these particular patrons are drinking. The images that the Lomo produces are really different - you never know what you're going to get - as this image clearly illustrates. |
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Night Speedometer
Kevin has this minivan kind of a vehicle with a speedometer that looks like it should be in some kind of special effects movie about the future and space aliens chasing after superhumans who use tools specially developed to detect while being undetected during our quest to save what's left of left of our world, but, its actually just his minivan we're driving in. I shot a picture of it, and the bumps in the road (and Kevin's creative driving through the darkened roads between Nowhere, Michigan and Someplace, Else) combined with a long exposure time made for this interesting (at least to me) picture. |
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NYC Rain
I was walking in Manhattan while it was raining, and shot this picture. I used a slow shutter speed with the Leica and shot it while I was walking at the same speed as the person in front of me. I tried to time the release of the shutter with the foot steps of the person, and was lucky enough to get it just right - I think my favorite thing about this image is the position of this person's right foot. |
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Off The Hook
It took me about an hour, but because I had my camera with me as I walked from the BART station (train) to my house in Albany, CA, I kept myself distracted while looking for pictures. This is one of them.
Is this supposed to be a statement about society? Is there a reason for this phone to be off the hook? Who did this, and why? Is there someone on this phone, "on hold"? Who knows. Perhaps this was just an act of passive-aggressive vandalism. Perhaps this was an act of defiance against the phone company.
Just to clear some things up: I didn't take the phone off the hook. I didn't listen to see if there was anyone on the other end of the line. I didn't hang it up after I took the picture. Lots of people walked past this phone, and none of them hung it up. Hmmm... is this a statement about society? |
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Rally for Reagan
Back in 1984, when I was a college freshman, I waited in a long line of people so I could get really a really far-away seat to see President Ronald Reagan speaking during a campaign stop at the Rochester War Memorial stadium. I could see him - as a little dot way way down on the floor. I remember how people were crying and waving flags like crazy. He would say things... stuff we all heard before on the news, slogans and sayings, things that were guaranteed to pump people up. "Win this one for the Gipper," was the last thing he said before he left the stage. "FOUR MORE YEARS!" the crowd chanted as he waved goodbye to a sea of waving flags - each flag equal to one vote. |
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Self Portrait, 1986
I'm pretty sure this was taken during my second year of college... but the class assignment was to shoot a self portrait. And this is what I turned in. I don't remember the grade I received, but I should have gotten points deducted for the white pants I was wearing. (I cringe when I look at those - but here's proof that I wasn't ALWAYS the ultimately tuned-in fashion stud that I am today. He he.) |
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Sept 11, 2001 in San Francisco
This man was selling a special edition of the San Francisco Chronicle late in the afternoon on Sept. 11, 2001, just after terrorists destroyed New York City's World Trade Center. A peaceful rally was held at the intersection of Powell and Market Streets, as the sun set on what was a tragic, shocking and sobering day. |
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Bightblur, San Francisco
I know what you're thinking. "It looks like you shot this picture without even looking through the damn camera! YOU FREAK!" Well, you're right! I just sort of aimed the camera at these people standing on a street corner - and hoped for the best. But with that brightly lit background, how could I go wrong? To make this image EXTRA special, I moved the camera around a bit during the actual exposure (you know, for "cool motion stuff"). And if you're searching for deeper meaning to this image, try this on for size: In my life, things move and sometimes lack focus. Discuss. |
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Half Pipe, Ohio
I was living in Ohio, attending college at Ohio University, when I drove past this giant half-pipe in the middle of nowhere. Seriously. Out there in the middle of farmland was this construction for people with skateboards. My timing couldn't have been any better because there were a few people on their way to this structure, with skateboards in hand. So I pulled my little red Chevy Luv truck over, and ran up with my camera and shot a few pictures. I never did anything with these pictures - until now, right here, on this web site. (An EXCLUSIVE! Don't you feel special?) |
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Tied Up
I was with friends, eating in a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francsico when someone walked up, tied a dog to something, and walked away. I remember thinking "Wow. I hope this person comes back." And as I ate my food, I kept looking over at the dog, who appeared to be scanning each and every passer-by checking for its owner for about 20 minutes. Eventually, the dog and I were relieved when the owner returned and life went back to normal.
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Train Station
This picture was shot in Belgium (somewhere between Brussels and Amsterdam) in the Fall of 2000, from a moving train as it was leaving the station. This woman was in the process of turning around, and this motion, combined with the movement of the train, made for an interesting mood - don't you think? Oh yeah? I thought you'd say that. Ha.
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Hanging Out In Bars, Part 1
You really need to wonder what kind of bars I've been hanging out in after looking at this picture. I better not comment further on this matter. |
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Hanging Out In Bars, Part 2
Have you ever been to Parkersburg, West Virginia? It's a small town right over the Ohio border. I used to escape to this place - a town that looks like if one more person left it would be considered an official ghost town - to shoot pictures when I was in college. This image (which, I think, was taken back in 1987) was one that I shot in a bar, and I remember staying there for hours just talking to people. Everyone in the place was really old... regulars who came every day to drink the same drink made the same way by the same person from the same spot at the bar each day. |
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