So the wife and I just returned from two wonderful weeks touring Spain and Portugal. I’m not sure that I would classify it as a relaxing vacation (we put close to 1500 miles on our little rental car), but it was a great trip and we saw A LOT of the Iberian Peninsula: Galicia, the [...]
05.26.2010
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So, I got my first taste of the power of the Internet the other day. My little project about unique polling stations in Philadelphia received a bit of attention on Tuesday after being touted by a few local (and national) bloggers. A big Thank You has to go out to Catherine Lucey (who, in full-disclosure, [...]
05.10.2010
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Just a quick note that the Selected and Chosen winners of this year’s American Photo 26 annual have been posted. I’m honored to be included for the 2nd year in a row. You can see my image from the Louvre in Paris in the Chosen gallery: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/APss/ If you’d like to see more images from [...]
03.05.2010
Finally putting the finishing touches on a new book of prints from current project “Behind the Curtain: A Look at Philadelphia’s Unique Polling Stations”. As with all my portfolio books, I’d be happy to send it along to any AD, CD, photo editors or art buyers that are interested in seeing it. (For the geeks [...]
03.03.2010
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I’ve been pokin’ ’round the old archive lately while re-editing my portfolios and I’ve been running across a lot of images that I’ve forgotten about. Here are a couple from last year’s presidential inauguration. I had hopes of testing some new equipment for making cinematic-style panoramas. But maybe an event during which I had to [...]
02.19.2010
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I’m sure all you dedicated readers of NFTHO (yeah, I’m speaking to you mom.) remember my mention of a small project I completed last year about one of the last roller rinks in Philadelphia, the Elmwood Roller Rink in Southwest Philly. I just learned yesterday that this little project was awarded an honorable mention in [...]
02.16.2010
In an effort to expand my presence in this whole Internet thing (I hear it’s going to be big.), I wanted to start exploring the capabilities to share images from my archive on this blog using Photoshelters’ Way-Too-Powerful-for-Ryan-to-Understand marketing tools. So here is a small slideshow of images from my Ireland visit last year, with [...]
02.11.2010
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So my talented younger brother, Colin, was in town last month. He was touring with the Broadway show Wicked. (He was playing Fiyero for all those who actually know the show.) It was great having him in town, since we haven’t lived in the same town for any length of time since I was in [...]
02.08.2010
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So here’s the latest installment of the Assistant’s Corner. Thanks guys: Share on Facebook
11.04.2009
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Went out with my lovely wife while she did some reporting and made a few new images for my Polling Place Project. Unfortunately, my Hasselblad is on bed rest right now after a frightful accident and it couldn’t come off the bench in time for this election cycle, so I’m testing a new digital technique [...]