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Self-Portraits from the Street
If you are a street photographer like me, you are always looking for interesting people doing interesting things in interesting circumstances and places in order to create interesting images. As a...
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Bringing the Street Indoors
I spent this past Saturday wandering the streets of midtown Manhattan and Central Park. While there is definitely enough activity on the streets to keep one busy for a full day and more, I do...
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Every Picture Tells a Story – Part 3
It has been over a month since I’ve posted any photographs from my “My Story” sub-project. As we have moved into the colder, winter months here in the New York City area, the sheer numbers of homeless...
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Street Portraits/Street Candids
When I take to the streets of New York for a day of photography, I am looking for candid photographs… photographs of people just being themselves. I don’t interject myself into the event. I don’t ask...
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Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
“I’m just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood” (The Animals) This has been a very tough week and it is only Thursday. How does one know when one’s work,...
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Street Candid Portraits
A little while back I posted about street portraits where I ask the subject if I can talk their picture and street candids where I surreptitiously grab a picture without the subject ever knowing. The...
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Hunters and Gatherers
Having been trained as a psychologist those many years ago, I often think in terms of Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychology and man’s need to become the best that he can be. It is a process. It is a...
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Thought for Today: April 11, 2013
“It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.” – Sebastiao Salgado I can’t believe six weeks have passed since my last “Thought for Today” post. Please don’t...
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Thought for Today: May 16, 2013
“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls.” – Ted Grant I absolutely love this quote. In just two short...
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Portraits from the Street
As I have said before, I am basically an introvert. So it is very difficult for me to walk up to strangers in any type of social setting and start an interaction with them. This reticence to start...
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Getting to Know You
Street photography is most often associated with capturing a moment in time where the subject never really knows that you have taken their picture. This is what we spend the majority of our time doing...
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Portraits from the Street (continued)
“The decisive moment and psychology, no less than camera position, are the principal factors in the making of a good portrait. It seems to me it would be pretty difficult to be a portrait photographer...
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Where Have I Been?
Good question and one that I have been asked by a couple of folks recently. Let me try to explain, albeit probably poorly, why I haven’t posted since October. Let me begin by laying the...
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Portraits from the Street (continued)
I mentioned that I had a fairly successful portfolio review back in November. All the work that I presented was from my “Portraits from the Street” series, part of my “Alone Among Millions” New York...
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He offered me half of his orange…
I met Michael (aka Bean) on a 42nd Street (NYC) heating grate just outside of Bryant Park. He was sitting there getting his “stuff” organized when I approached. It was Christmas Eve morning. We...
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Portraits from the Streets (Continued)
Yeah I know… I haven’t posted in a month. My bad… my very bad. There is just so much going on these days. Then there is the every-other-day snows that are just a pain-in-the-ass. The weather has also...
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Passion versus Pragmatism
I recently wrote on Facebook “I enjoy making flower/nature/landscape/outdoor images. Others enjoy them as well. I can sell prints of those images. But my passion is on the streets and the people I meet...
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Self-Portraits versus Selfies
Self-portraits, in the form of “selfies”, are starting to take a bad rap these days. Everybody, it seems, has a smartphone and therefore a camera. And everybody thinks they’re a photographer. So they...
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A Little About Scott
I first met Scott about a month ago on Broadway in New York City. I saw him sitting on a door stoop, eyes straight down staring at the paper in his lap and a small sign in front of him espousing his...
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REMINDER: 2014 New York City Street Photography Tours/Workshops
I’m bring this up from my Workshop page to make sure it is being seen by as many people as possible. This is your chance to hone your skills as a photographer in candid street situations with an...
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