I’ve felt for a while that I needed to do more dusk and night photographs of the Lower East Side. The shop windows become more transparent as the sun goes down, and the street life changes as residents and tourists flock to the bars, restaurants, and clubs. Last night I went out at about 6, […]

Another beautiful day, patchy clouds, 70 degrees. I decided to give some attention to the thus far neglected Third Avenue border of what I am defining as the Lower East Side. Old timers still think of it as part of the LES, but newcomers are likely to know it only as the East Village. Whatever […]

After several mostly wet days, and lots of work on the computer, I returned to shooting on the Lower East Side. I took the subway down to City Hall, and walked along the approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, the southern boundary of my project. At Front Street I noticed Photographic Gallery, ducked in briefly, and […]

The last few days have been life in photo hell sifting through hundreds of negatives from the past 25 years, taking them to the lab to scan on a high quality Imacon scanner. I’m putting together three sets of work: New York, Amsterdam, Berlin. There have been few overlooked pearls discovered, but it’s a good […]

Got out early this morning to catch the morning sun. It is a fact of life for those photographing buildings in New York that north facing facades only get a brief wash of sunlight each day, none at all in the winter. Manhattan is not precisely oriented north/south, but it’s close enough. Mars Bar My […]

Photoshop Working on my portfolio, a selection of images of New York, Amsterdam, and Berlin to be printed 20×24 inches or larger. Although I’ll be scanning the negatives on a high end Imacon scanner, I’m doing quick scans and reviewing images, using my desktop scanner and Photoshop.

New construction on Houston and Bowery Today, Easter Sunday, I returned to the streets of the Lower East Side. I began walking uptown past Houston and East 1st Street where massive construction is transforming the area. I stopped on East 2nd Street where I photographed a community garden and a new tower rising behind on […]

Amsterdam, raw and windy On my way to New York once again.

BarcelonetaMy first visit to Barcelona, I was suitably impressed with the vitality and beauty of the city, both in its old and new aspects. Traveling with my wife and son, I stayed at the Casa Camper, a boutique hotel located conveniently between the Ramblas–the famous boulevard through the old city–and the modern museum designed by […]

Amsterdam After several days in Amsterdam spent mostly working on my website, an enterprise that requires a fair amount of tending and feeding, I am heading off to Barcelona for a few days with my family. I have never been there–nor anywhere in Spain–and am looking forward to it.

JFK Airport Back to New York for a brief trip to deal with unfinished business. Finished. Back to Amsterdam. Such is the life.