Childhood Vision

Bathtub Doll

Ever wonder why children are not scared of their bathtub toys.....

A Child at Last.......

                        'It is never too late to have a happy childhood'.......Tom Robbins

Childhood, Other Neighborhoods

"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder".....Eberhard Arnold

King Henry

As the TV show once said, 'there are 8 million stories in the naked city, this has been one of them'. This portrait.  is a Henry, aka King Henry, a fixture in modern day Coney Island.

As with most of the characters in Coney Island, Henry appears to be from a totally different time and place, other then the year 2011. Is it Coney or is it the person. I believe that Coney Island has a way of stopping time - when I visit it conjures up imagery from special days when as a youth a good deal of time was spent at Nathan's and various other Coney iconic locations.

A friend wrote me this morning and said this image was every bit as detailed as landscape - never quite thought about these portraits in that way and I thank her for opening a new train of thought about the work. I have kept these images around for quite some time and am happy to see them in this new light.

Captured with a Canon 5DMKII, 24-105MM Lens, converted to black and white using a LAB Conversion method

Point and Shoot

New York City

 Yet another one from the point and shoot (no look) series. Captured with a Silver Canon Anniversary model point and shoot camera, circa 1996.

Bicycle, Maine

Bicycle, Cushing, maine

 Another from the series 'Childhood and Other Neighborhoods'

Captured with a Canon 5DMKII, 24-105MM lens

Coney Island

Summer, Coney Island

Captured with a Nikon F3, Tri-X black and white film, scanned into the digital world by JS Scans, Chicago, Illinois.