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Mummer’s Day 2015
Last year’s Mummer’s parade opened me up to the oldest, and probably craziest, folk festival in the United States. I have described it to friends as the Mardi Gras of the East coast. This year, I managed to get out to the afterparty over on two-street. I wanted to focus on the fun, mayhem, and the drunken […]
Family and Graduation
My family (Father, Stepmother, Brother) came out to visit me for my graduation ceremony at RIT. I never get to see any of them, and I especially never get to see them in my element. So I got to take them out to some places around Rochester and made some photographs of them. I don’t […]
My Fourth
My fourth of July was quite interesting. When I was a younger child my family had a split. I stopped seeing extended family members almost immediately. No contact at all. As an adult, I’ve been slowly trying to reconnect with these people I have vague childhood memories with. I was invited to a family fourth […]
NYC Trip Day 4 – In the Field
By the time we had reached Time magazine and Sports Illustrated, we really weren’t being told anything we hadn’t learned already. However, I’ll share my notes still. Concerning photography, taking a good photo is good but what is important is finding a story and executing it visually. To be a hire-able photographer you […]