Snapshots
Isadora
Images of the Photographer
as a Young Man
Friends, Family, Felines
Miscellaneous
These are pictures that I don't feel are particularly artistic. I was just snapping pictures and didn't care, whereas some of them are failed attempts at art. I was behind the camera for most of these photos, but some of them were given to me by other people. Click on the thumbnails to view the enlargements.
Isadora
A bunch of pictures of a girl who's on my mind a lot of the time. Everyone calls her Izzy. Izzy is a Computer Science student at Pace University here in New York, the former Photo Editor for the Pitt News, and a former photojournalist intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Izzy is a babe.
A couple of photos from our trip to Bermuda in early September, 2001.
(This was before airplanes started falling out of the sky.) On the left is
Tobacco Bay, where Izzy and I went swimming with a bunch of fish. On the
right is Horseshoe Bay, a beautiful beach on the south side of Bermuda.
Izzy sitting on the counter in the kitchen. In the background is my
background rig.
One of the reasons why Izzy is a babe is that she can drive a stick. She
can drive a stick in Manhattan. Here she's in the passenger seat.
A bunch of older pictures of Izzy, from when she was living in Pittsburgh.
The first two are photos that she sent me way back when; I have no idea
who took them. The last three are photos that I took at various times.
Images of the Photographer as a Young Man
I have lots of pictures of me peering out from behind cameras, but this is one
of the few that I've taken of myself without the aid of a mirror that I actually
like. The close-focusing ability of the
Olympus C-2020Z has enabled me to take a photo of myself by holding the
camera at arm's length. Actually, I still used a mirror for this photo;
I'm looking at the LCD screen on the back of the Olympus in the mirror.
My simplistic self-portrait. Hey, at least I had enough sense to cancel the flash! And I
tilted the camera (one that every photographer should have, a Yashica T4 Super, called the
T5 here in the UK) a bit so that it wasn't completely covering my face.
Moving Christmas trees is never fun, but the tree that Izzy and I had for
Christmas 2000 should have been registered with the police. It was lethal.
When it came time to remove the it, we decided that trying to move it out
through the front door was too dangerous and tossed it out the bedroom
window instead.
A photo of myself taken by Priya in 1995 with a point
and shoot camera that she had just bought with me at B&H
Photo-Video. I don't look like this anymore!
Myself and my then-colleague Ros in our office at Children's Television Workshop in 1993.
Friends, Family, Felines
My sister, Nell, and her husband, Dave, during our trip to Bermuda. We
sailed there from New York on the Pacific Princess, which you may know better as
the Love Boat. It's not very large, and it's 30 years old, but we thought
that it would be fun to say that we sailed on the Love Boat.
This is a snapshot of Leeanda that I took while she was putting
on her make-up one morning. The sun was shining brightly through the window, which has
caused flare to the left and dark shadows to the right, but it was a grab shot.
This is a photo of my friend Valerie Vigoda
(how's that for a cool name?) playing with her band at a little club in New York. I was
shooting with T-Max P3200 and I think that I may have pushed it a stop. It's been a while!
Myself and Leeanda on Tottenham Court Road in London.
First picture: We're about to go clubbing.
Second picture: Eight hours later, we've just returned from clubbing.
Some pictures of my late cat, Cat.
My new cat, Gracie. I have another cat, D'arcy, but I like to think that I
really have three cats, as Gracie is about the size of two normal-sized cats and
consumes a similar amount of food.
My friend Samantha.
Miscellaneous
My flat in Soho, London is the first residence that I've rented for the express purpose of
using as a photo studio. It has a lot of space, enough for pro work if I was willing to
live without furniture. The ceilings are only about nine feet, which is considered low for
a studio, but as shown in the third picture, they're high enough for the boom stand to be
useful.
This was taken while I was on vacation in Sacramento, California. The locomotive was
safely stationary. This picture might have qualified for the miscellaneous art photos
section, except that I forgot to turn the date imprinting off on the Yashica T4 Super. I
hate it when that happens. I leave it off now.
This photo had some promise. I saw a group of artists working in front of the fountain at
Canary Wharf in London. I had my Bronica SQ-Ai, my 40/4 lens, and my Bronica Speed Grip.
However, I was in fact testing the Speed Grip, which I had just purchased, and I
was shooting with a roll of Ektar 25 film that was two years past its expiration date. I
was stuck shooting in the dwindling daylight at f/4 with ISO 25 film. I had to underexpose
a bit in order to avoid severe camera shake, and that combined with the bogus colors
killed the shot. Oh well. It's a good background, though. I'll go back there at some point
and put something interesting in the foreground.
These are two snapshots of Hudson View Gardens, the apartment complex in which I lived in
Washington Heights, New York City. It's a really nice area. The first floor window visible
near the left of the arch in the second picture was one of my windows. I've since sold the
apartment.
My Audi A4. I finally sold it!
I rented this Beetle for a weekend so I could drive to Pittsburgh.. I
shot these photos with a 30-year-old Polaroid 180 camera on Polapan 400 pack
film. They're scanned from the little 3x4-inch Polaroid prints, so they
look a little rough. You may notice that the second two are a little
off-center as well; this is because the Polaroid 180 is a rangefinder camera,
and I don't think that the framelines on mind are 100% accurate. The Bug
is really red, but don't worry, I took some color photos too and will have them
up soon. (By the way, these photos represent the first time that I've used
the Microsoft FrontPage automatic thumbnail generator, if anyone cares.
It seems to suck, so this will also represent the last time that I'll use it.)
Last updated November 28, 2001