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New Homepage Image

I try to change the homepage image on my website often. This is the current image, which is getting some nice feedback.

 Christchurch, New Zealand

My visit with Michael Melford, NGS Photographer & friend

Yesterday was my friend Michael Melford's birthday, and I got to spend a few hours with him at his home about 40 miles from where I live. Michael was the first photographer that I traveled with as an assistant, when I moved to NYC in the early eighties. And, he was the last photographer that I traveled with after I decided to stop assisting a few years, and many photographers later.

Michael mostly shoots beautiful landscapes for National Geographic, and one of my favorite projects which appeared in the magazine was his piece on Acadia National Park in autumn. It's spectacular!

Before I left, we agreed to swap prints, and I was happy to take home a beautiful print of the first image in the gallery here: "Acadia National Park in Autumn".
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He's getting a print of my image of the Jade Screen Hotel, perched in the Huangshan Mt's of China:

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Thanks Michael & Happy Birthday!

The true inventor of the "Pluto Platter" (Frisbee) has died....

From the NPR story:

According to Kennedy, Morrison and his future wife, Lu, used to toss a tin cake pan on the beach in California. The idea grew as Morrison considered ways to make the cake pans fly better and after serving as a pilot in World War II, Morrison began manufacturing his flying discs in 1948.

To read more:

Frisbee Inventor Dies At 90

A little snow in Guilford

I have some friends who are members of the First Congregational Church, which sits on the Green here in Guilford. Last year I asked for and received permission to climb the scaffolding which was erected to repair the top of the steeple, and after going to the top and photographing with Barbara & Larry, two friendly and helpful Board Members from the church, we climbed down and parted ways.
After they were out of sight, and I was packing up my equipment, a Guilford police officer showed up and demanded to know who I was and what was I doing on the steeple. And, a few minutes later another police car arrived.  Eventually it was cleared up when they contacted "church people", and I was allowed to leave. Whew!

This morning, while walking across the Green after a meeting with a colleague, I thought that perhaps there might be an image or two from the same steeple, during the snowstorm. I walked over to Barbara's house, to see if it was possible. She made some calls, got permission and we arranged to rendezvous around noon.

Here are few of the resulting images:

Guilford Green, from the steeple

The frosted bell in the steeple 

The steeple from the Guilford Green

Check back, as I may and try to get back up there tomorrow, after the storm has cleared.

Our Little Lucy

I love animals. All animals.

Losing a pet which you love, and who loves you back-every day of its life, can be devastating.

Last night, our little girl Lucy was hit by a car and lived long enough for me to get her into the kitchen, where she died.

We adopted Lucy from Forgotten Felines, a no-kill Shelter in Westbrook CT, in November of 2008. She was a very nervous and distrusting young cat, and we knew that she'd be a "project"  that would take much love and affection to earn her trust.

Added on 2.5.2010:

Lucy was a very special little cat that took a lot of time and love, and to to earn her trust. She was wary of most people, and we'll never know why. But she came to trust & return my love, and I will be forever grateful that she did. I remember when we first brought Lucy home. We couldn't even touch her for months, and I told Ingrid that someday she would let me hold her. It took time, but after some months of gaining her trust, she let me pick her up for 2 or 3 seconds and then she would panic. Eventually I could pick her up and hold her, and she would purr loudly, and rub her neck and head against my face.

Lucy loved being outside, hunting and exploring. Most of the time she stayed inside, but we couldn't keep her inside all of the time. As Ingrid has said, that would be like locking me in the house all day & night.

Here is a small gallery of images of Lucy which were made with my iPhone:
"Lucy"

She came to trust and love us, and we loved her.

We miss you, Lucy
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Deer tracks on Eagle Lake in Acadia N.P.

Just to prove....

......that I'm not inclined to just shoot in cold weather, here are a few images that I made last Fall.

your comments are welcomed...

 

  

  

Try to forget what it is that you are looking at..........