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I was hired to capture some food photography for Johnny Maumbo’s Famous Chicken & Fish, a new restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland. For a number of hours, the owner watched intently as I accepted new dish and meticulously chose a supporting cast from a table-full of other food items and kitchen accessories. This is the part of the food photography…
This piece called Descent was just completed March 2016. I’m happy that it has been very well received and many have asked me to give insight into how the image was created.  I’ll get to that later, but first, there’s a more important story to tell. Our journey began over a year ago when our beautiful…
For decades, I’ve marveled at the “golden sticks” protruding out of the tree line bordering Interstate 495 (Washington beltway).  Those sticks (as I would learn embarrassingly late in life) are called spires. Spire: A tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower. Anyway, I wandered off the beltway and found myself purposely lost…
I went on a photo excursion to Gettysburg, PA. Actually, I made 2 trips.  I didn’t write about the first trip, because it was (how can I put this delicately) a complete and utter failure. On the first trip, I had ventured-out too late in the day. The place was packed with tourists, the sun was high and bright,…
I recently visited Baltimore’s famed National Aquarium. Being surrounded by all of that water inspired me to write about the tendency of artists to dilute their portfolio. Our story starts with me repeatedly failing to capture inspiring images of these magnificent sea creatures. Pictures came out too light; too dark; fish moved too fast; too slow. And where do they…