Category Archives: Travel

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On the road again

October 22, 2008 – 6:28 am

This week your peripatetic (definition: walking about; itinerant; nomadic) blogging shutterbug is back in the place of his birth: Chicago, Illinois. I am here to photograph the goings-on at a huge water convention called WEFTEC. Water is, of course, a hugely important part of our world, and has, in recent years, become a real political hot potato. So it’s interesting learning more about the technological processes required to process the waste water that we produce in increasingly frightening quantities.

Here are a few photographic highlights…

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Advertising Week!

October 3, 2008 – 6:31 am

It was an amazing week of education, entertainment and camaraderie. Here’s a slideshow recap of my week!

Advertising Week

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Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated

October 1, 2008 – 11:19 am

I have just finished the busiest month (September) of my career, and I’m still working seven days a week! I can’t believe my good fortune that I get to wake up nearly every day, grab a camera or a computer and do this work. It’s truly a blessing.

Anyway, as for an update, the biggest event recently was Advertising Week in New York City (my favorite place away-from-home in the world). It was five days and almost eighty different events. I had two awesome assistants (thank you Lea and Sam!) and the regular crew of superheroes who put this thing on. I am still not quite dug out from under the over five thousand photographs I brought back with me, but here are a couple of me for your enjoyment. The first one is the Serta Sleep Sheep, one of the advertising “icons” who wandered about entertaining people. The second one is Ziggy Marley, who needs no introduction.

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I went for a walk in Portland this morning

September 15, 2008 – 9:34 am

We photographers must periodically do what we call “personal work” in order to keep our creative juices flowing. I am in Portland, Oregon with my son Max for a college visit today. I went out for a walk along the river this morning with my camera, one lens, and no agenda. I enjoyed the quiet time.

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Elephant seals

August 3, 2008 – 10:41 pm

We had a lovely morning adventure today. We loaded up the kids and went out to Año Nuevo state beach in search of their resident Elephant Seals. Although it’s neither the mating season or the breeding season (the most popular times to see them) we wanted to have a day. So off we went. We parked in the main parking lot and walked the 2.5 miles or so down to the beaches where the seals congregate. At this moment in their year, the seals are molting. It’s primarily the large males who are on the beaches alongside the juveniles. The mature females are somewhere out in the Pacific between Pescadero and the Hawaiian Islands loading up on squid.

Anyway, we ran across a couple of pups who were actually up and (sort of) about. Both were kind enough to offer me the opportunity to photograph them and photograph them I did.

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Back in the USA

March 18, 2008 – 7:34 am

It was a whirlwind of art, food, wine and fond memories, and now we’re back home. Max and Sam enjoyed their time with their Grandma, Walter seems no worse for the wear, and Lara (our Italian exchange student) is a delightful, lyric addition to the usual goings on around here.

Thanks for all the well-wishes!

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Real Art

March 15, 2008 – 1:24 am

Edgar Degas made the original version of this sculpture, petite danseuse de 14 ans (“small dancer aged 14”),  in wax, and it was cast in bronze after his death. It is one of the multitude of treasures we beheld yesterday at the Musée d’Orsay here in Paris.

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