Red Barber Chair, ESP

Red Barber Chair, ESP

This is a re-doux of an image from a few years back...The Red Barber Chair is in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. A good trip to Philly is to get to the Graffiti Underground and then Eastern State. Makes for quite the photographic day...

Iceland - Grass Church

Church with grass roof, Iceland 

The one image I wanted to make on this trip was to re-shoot the church with the grass roof. One would pass this church on the way to the glacier lagoon - it sits on a private farm just off the highway. When I was  in Iceland last year I had maybe 15 minutes one morning to photograph this church and never got something I liked....This time around there were only three of us so time was not an issue. I decided to make a three image panoramic to give an idea of how remote a location this is. These churches are in all sorts of locations from behind the barn to high on the hill overlooking a town - other are hidden like this one on a private farm hidden behind the barn....

Highlight of the trip was going back to the glacier lagoon twice....this morning we caught a marvelous pink sky over the lagoon that lasted for about 60 minutes.....and it got even better after the sun peeked out...IMage from this week will be on the blog next week...both iPhone (iphone-antics.blogspot.com) and these pages.

Driving back to  Reykjavik  today - back to New York tomorrow.......these trips always end way to fast......

Artist Palette

Artist Palette, Death Valley

'Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better'.....Albert Einstein

I am off to Death Valley on Thursday for 7 days -  truly an amazing place to spend time....

Opera Singers

Opera Singers, New York City, circa 1975

Best I can remember this image was captured for Zoo World Magazine back in the 70's.  At the time I was living in New York and working on 28th street as a first assistant in  a commercial photography studio. Not quite sure if they were mother-son or husband-wife, but they were sure fun when they came by the studio.

During that time period I moonlighted in the music business, going to photograph concerts, and, doing some magazine work on the side. Back then you could spend the entire night shooting from the pit, unlike today where it is three songs from back of house with a long lens. Times have certainly changed.

I have posted this image before but not in Black and White.