When I was enlisted, there were many occasions that reminded me I simply didn’t belong among many of the people I was surrounded by for no other reason than I just could not, and still cannot, relate to the majority of them. Here's one example of why.Continue reading
Do We Grow More Conservative As We Grow Older?
I do not believe that we become more conservative as we get older by regressing. We just get stuck while the world moves on without us. Let me explain…Continue reading
Photography Pricing Rates and “Investment”
I spend a decent amount of time on Google to see what other photographers in my area are up to. I’ll look at everything such as what their pricing and rates are, what kind of photography they choose to display for their portfolios, and even the kind of website design they’ve chosen and what platforms...Continue reading
Live Event Photography with Book of Souls
Photographing a heavy metal band's practice session turned into a quick lesson in cheap and very effective flash photography...Continue reading
Portrait of Holyoke Massachusetts Police Chief Scott
Photography assignment: The Daily Hampshire Gazette In 2011, the Gazette sent me on assignment to take some photos of Holyoke Police Chief Scott for a story they were doing on his impending retirement. To this day, Chief Scott remains one of my favorite portrait photography subjects and this photo assignment remains one of my favorites....Continue reading
Headshots and Portraits with Liz and Shayna
On-location Portrait Photography with Speedlights The other day I got together with Liz and Shayna for a headshot and street portrait photography session around Providence, Rhode Island with the intention of getting out from pandemic isolation and helping each other to have fun with good friends while driving around some shady areas of Providence in...Continue reading
DMCA Violation Notification Email Received
Actually, this notification of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violation is a scam Odds are you’ve encountered a spam email recently. It seems that scammers are finding as many ways possible into your inbox. Around 5am EST, a scammer sent this particular one to me by way of my website’s contact-form: Screenshot of a...Continue reading
Afghanistan, Veterans, and OEF
To my Sisters and Brothers in Arms: I never saw combat, but we are still family. No matter where you fall politically, remember that we served for reasons that are entirely our own. Civilians and politicians will say that you fought for the military industrial complex, for American imperialism, for oil, for poppy seeds, for...Continue reading
Another Swampy Portrait Photography Session
My most recent fire performer photography adventure brought me to Voluntown, CT, this past weekend. I was invited to a private birthday campout by Andrew, a fire-spinning buddy of mine, for some headshots and fire-performer photography action shots. His location was wonderfully hidden away from everyone, on a swampy piece of family property. Between alien-looking,...Continue reading
ACN, MLM, and Network Marketing
An article published by Politico about a lawsuit concerning that MAGAt rat’s endorsement of ACN scrolled by on my feed, today. It triggered some thoughts. Pat Lenfest and ACN I remember when Pat, a friend since high school — someone whom my grandmother adored — tried to get me to “sell” for ACN in 2004....