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Working on three new articles for all of you to enjoy. Look for them soon. In the meantime here is a nice little photo to enjoy. 

Yeah I know, I'm a bit behind but I have an excuse! I've been shooting at New York Fashion Week for WWD (Womens Wear Daily). I promise new content soon! In the meantime please enjoy this shot from the only show I actually went to because I just love this designer's work and of course it was her 50th anniversary in the fashion industry, Betsey Johnson....

Oh before I forget I added a new gallery for my new art project. Please donate to help me make this project come true!

This week part 2 of my article on working with legacy glass on MILC's will be up along with hopefully part 1 of my Pentax 645Z article. In the meantime I am right now starting to get together a new personal project called Instant and hope that all of you out there support it with a small donation :) Here are a few images from my experimentation for this project....

Just a quick update folks. I haven't added an article in a little bit as I've been a bit busy. That said however I will have great content soon for you all including a two part on using old lenses on MILC's and a special educational article on shooting tethered with the Pentax 645Z. I will also be giving you all a review of Polarr, a new image editing app that is similar to Snapseed 2.0 and works nicely in conjunction with it.

In the meantime some nice test images shot with my Samsung Galaxy S5 and processed using Polarr and Snapseed.....

I want to thank everyone from See.Me for including me in the Exposure Exhibit that just finished up at The Musée du Louvre on Monday. It was a great honor to be included. To be honest I've never considered myself an artist. I'm just a photographer. I feel a bit overwhelmed by this and to be honest a bit undeserving. I share an image with you all of one of the displays at the Louvre to give you an idea. There were several of these in the room where the exhibit was.

Again my thanks to the folks at See.Me and to all of you who took the time while in Paris to visit and see the exhibit. It was a great honor to be included. Here is the image used in the exhibit. You can find it in the Junk Fashion Gallery here on this site.

I wish I could show you all what I shot today. Unfortunately it was client work and must wait before it is featured here. Today was a physically difficult day to shoot. It was humid, hot and the clothing was winter outerwear. This entry will be brief, but I will share a location scouting shot with you all......

Concrete canyons and caves of steel, the sun rises on spinning wheels.....

This week is the inaugural CFDA New York Men's Fashion Week. I'll be a little tied up, but no worries a proper blog post will come soon! In the meantime please enjoy the hot sticky weather in NYC....

One thing you always hear when using a wide angle lens is to "get close". Since the typical FOV for a cell phone camera is about 28mm, I thought to give this a shot...

Shot on my Samsung Galaxy S5 with post work in Snapseed 2.0.  Lighting is a video light inside a Gary Fong Lumisphere and a table top light box. This entry entirely done from my Galaxy S5.  

Just a quick entry now that the site has been redesigned and all my various online outlets consolidated to here. If you are looking for my work over on Blogger, I will not be publishing there any longer. Trying to keep all the sites together is just too much work. This is why I chose this new design for my site. 

Today every website needs a blog to give insight to the company,  service provider or artist that the site represents.  Why make those interested in what I do and say go to several different sites just to figure out who I am and what I represent? It is quite liberating not having to worry about updating 3 or 4 different sites at once. One site to rule them all!

After updating and finishing the redesign I went out for some snack cakes and coffee and had my Galaxy S5 with me. I quickly in the fading twilight saw two wonderful things to shoot. The rail crossing and the sky....

Nature provides the best fireworks. Happy Independence Day folks!