• Highest Honors at PPA International Print Competition

    Highest Honors at PPA International Print Competition

    About a year ago, I wrote an blog article entitled Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio. In this article, I talked about how I turned around a disastrous photography outing at the Baltimore Aquarium. As fortune would have it, the image I affectionately call “Emerald Tree Serpent” won top honors in the 2016 PPA International Print competition.…

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  • Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio

    Don’t Dilute Your Portfolio

    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…

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  • I Got Busted

    I Got Busted

    I’m on a photo excursion in Lititz, PA with a photography buddy. We’re sitting in the back of the Bulls Head Tavern, and I was boasting about how I was able to capture candid images with my Fuji X100s, a very compact camera that I was using for my street photography. The image above shows seven (7) bar patrons who were…

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