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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Grave Humor

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Just because I spend too much time wandering around cemeteries doesn't mean I've lost my sense of humor.  To the contrary, I think o...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

BB-39 - USS Arizona Memorial

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Pearl Harbor has been an American Naval Base since the 1890's, and was the site of the infamous Japanese surprise attack on the mornin...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Cornerstone

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  It's a very handsome piece, dark gray with lighter speckling, three lines of type at the top and the date in the lower right, all car...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Metropolitan and The Essex

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October 1985 I always liked this picture for the two-tone effect of the almost-silhouetted foreground and background and the way the mi...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

But Wait, There's More!

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November 7, 2011 The Friends Meeting House is on Old Jericho Turnpike in Jericho.  Easily overlooked, next to a multi-story professional...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Hallowe'en with Harry

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October 31, 2011 I've been to see the gravesite of Harry Houdini many times over the years at the now semi-abandoned Machpelah Cemete...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Along the Deuce

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July 1988 I spent four years working on the west side of Manhattan, on 44th Street at 12th Avenue.  When I first started there in 1987...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Manhattan Tower

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March 11, 2003 I cannot for the life of me remember why I was crossing the bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan on this morning in March. ...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Lido Sunflower

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August 1999 My first autofocus camera was the Pentax ZX-5n which I got in the summer of 1999.  I remember I was able to afford it becau...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Bleecker Street in July

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July 30, 1986 Here's another example of Kodak's Recording Film, on a hot Wednesday afternoon in July.  For this one I was standi...
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..is currently a professional photographer and until 1996 worked in the pre-press color trade. When his career in that business came to an end, he went off in pursuit of the latent image for newspapers, fine art, and school yearbooks. In 2004 he found his skills as a film photographer transiting to a new level, a change brought on by the digital age...
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