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I’ve spent much of the last four months photographing bits and pieces on a small chest on our sunporch, affectionately called my Square Foot Studio. At first focused solely on playing with my Fuji macro lens, I used whatever light fell upon the wooden top and photographed the dead flowers and leaves being washed out of the jar that week. I began to play with the light that changed throughout the day, popping in and out of ...

Gettysburg, PA April 3-5, 2020 Sunset, Gettysburg National Military Park What is the Photographers’ Retreat? It is an opportunity for photographers to meet together over an unstructured weekend to talk with people who speak the same language, share work, take photographs and make new friends. How does it differ from a workshop or conference? There are no agendas, lectures or classroom teachers. At this retreat we all get to be students and we can all be teachers. This is an informal gathering ...

This project was sparked in 1990 when in a NJ cemetery I came upon a full sized stone recliner used as a headstone. The inscription, Come Sit With Me,has stuck in my mind all these years and influenced my obsession with chairs and other forms of seating placed deliberately or carelessly in the environment.  Waiting Roon,(Pier 5) Cheung Chau, Hong Kong Serving as an example of the importance of function over form, an uncomfortable chair can ...

Gallery News  I hope you had a wonderful summer! Ours was busy between workshops, visitors and preparing new large platinum prints to hang in our new partner Stanhope & Spencer Gallery just down the street in Rockland. We will be working closely with Henry and Maureen in the coming year with new exhibits in October, May and possibly another in the fall. This fall I will be exhibiting new platinum prints 16x20 and up to ...

Even early in the morning,​ it was very hot at the Temple of Heaven Park It was hot, and I’m talking Alabama hot, on the one day I had to go photographing in Beijing after my workshop last month. My host Mr. Chen took me to the Temple of Heaven Park, near the center of Beijing. After a quick breakfast, a taxi and the subway line we were at the entrance by 7:30. How many ...

Fan dancing in neighborhood formal formal park. In my experience, the Chinese people appear to use parks and other public places much as we use our front porch or backyard. They gather to exercise, play cards, practice music, Tai Chi or traditional weapon practice as well as to simply socialize. In one park I watched a man creating patterns in the air with a kite. In another park I watched, in fascination, as a group ...

Next to my cameras, my passport is my most prized possession. It has given me entre into more places in the world than I could have ever imagined. This summer doors opened for me to return to Beijing to teach an eight-day platinum printing class. The invitation came through Mr. Lu Di, whose company, Shan Shui Zhi Jian, offers a wide variety of photographic workshops out of their studio space in the Chaoyang District (eastern ...

Has going digital changed my work?  Yes and no. Yes, because working with Fuji’s XT-2 and X-Pro 2 cameras has allowed me to return to my photojournalism roots. These cameras feel like the 35mm cameras I used before I began exclusively working with large format cameras. No, because I use the medium format GFX very much like I used my view cameras, working slowly and with a tripod. My distinction is mostly mental. When I ...

Bernard Langlais was a Mainer, born and raised in Old Town. Part of New York's modern art scene in the 1950’s he became an internationally known artist. While vacationing in Maine in 1956 he began working with wood scraps found around his summer camp. He created his mosaic-like wall compositions with a process he called painting with wood. He had significant exhibitions in 1960-61 in New York City but by the mid-1960s he’d become unhappy with the ...