I don’t normally use my blog to solicit advice, particularly about personal matters. However William, my grandson is not yet two and a half and hasn’t started talking yet. He is not self-involved; he can identify colors and objects and points to them when asked; he knows what is going on around him. He seems to use the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I am still in the midst of my huge project of digitizing all my film negatives from the 1980s through the end of the last century. It is a chore. The only joy I feel now is when I come across a photo that works. This happens about 10 percent of the time (in […]
It was a cold day. I can’t remember if it was February or March. I do know it was 1991 and I was taking a walk from Bay Ridge, where I was living at the time, to the Brooklyn Museum. I loved taking long walks. Now and then I got a street sign in the […]
Today’s experiment: Today, my experiment combines my love for fire hydrants (Fire Plugs, Concentration, What Luck! Fun with Pipes) with my recent fascination with graffiti. The fire hydrant itself is a cast iron work of art. Placed in front of a white brick wall in an urban setting this hydrant could have provided an apt foreground for […]
I saw this graffiti in May of 1991 on a walk through SoHo in New York City. SoHo stands for ‘South of Houston’, where ‘Houston’ is pronounced ‘How-Stun’, unlike the city in Texas. When I moved away from NYC, SoHo was becoming an upscale shopping area. I wonder how much graffiti still adorns the side […]
Coney Island, in Brooklyn NY, is a wonderful place especially in the off season. The boardwalk was virtually deserted in the photograph below. I was photographing the shuttered Atlantis Building, when I caught the shadow of a passerby who was about to enter the scene. The shadow seemed to integrate with the graffiti, except for a […]
I took the picture below on 23rd street, my way back home from Penn Station. I had my tripod. I like the look of night color photographs. They don’t look the same as through the viewfinder. One can tell that cars traveled through the frame of the picture as I snapped the shutter. Their tail lights […]
I walked a lot when I lived in Manhattan. I took the picture below on one of my walks through East Side Park in 1991. It was a cold November day, and very clear. The amphitheater was south of the park. As I recall it was even further south than the Fire Boat Station. I […]
This photograph is from my archives. I took it in March of 1989 in Lower Manhattan. I don’t remember exactly where, but it is probably on the Lower East Side. To the best of my recollection, I took this picture on The Bowery. I like the ‘No Parking’ sign tilted at the same angle as […]
In transit today (again). Sidra, my granddaughter is going to be 11, so we drove down to LA. The ride was much more tiring than usual, with a traffic jam 162 miles out. I did want to share another of my graffiti adventures from bygone years:
