The Thrill

Exhilaration feeds the passion of our photography; all else are mere steps in between.   Some say they do it to create art, others to capture an expressive moment, and many others to earn an income, but I maintain those are all mere passages. Many years ago, too many...

Notes From A Wounded Photographer

The next best thing to doing nothing is doing something. This week I finally had an operation on the torn meniscus in my knee.  This summer, after a brisk workout earlier that day, I was walking down a small platform on my deck when I felt an acute pain and sudden...

Frozen Fingers

Have you ever frozen your fingers taking photos?  I remember a sunset during the Winter Solstice where the temps were in the teens and the wind was ripping off of Long Island Sound making wind chill negative numbers.  At one point I lost feeling in my fingers....

The Way We Get There

This September I went on my annual pilgrimage to Montana and Wyoming.  My close friend and fishing buddy and I have been going there since 1978.  Gosh that seems like only yesterday.  When we first began our trips we both lived in New Jersey and since then he’s moved...

Sepia Golden Tone

To create sepia you have to convert your image into Black & White or Sepia monochrome.  Here are a few ways to do it. One is to create a Black & White Adjustment Layer and check “Tint” which then allows you to play with the underlying color sliders...