Some images from a visit to Milan, Italy today … Duomo di Milano, the largest cathedral in Italy, and the fifth largest in the world. We climbed close to 200 steps to the reach the roof … magnificent views … An…
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Today we spent time in the town of Bellagio … we travelled there by ferry. Bellagio is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located on Lake Como. As we arrived at our restaurant for…
Last full day in Venice … on the road tomorrow to Lake Como … several random images around the city
I’ve been on the road lately and had the opportunity to grab some interesting shots of severe storms. These photos of thunderstorms are from Chicago and Philadelphia. The first is from the window seat of an airplane as we were…
Sometimes when working for a client, you get rewarded with sweet assignments. Back in 2002, Pierce was the official fire truck sponsor for the winter olympics in Salt Lake City. I was sent out there … before the games ……
While visiting Rye, NY for a wedding, I found myself looking out over Milton Harbor toward New York City about 1AM. The view was beautiful, and the light on the horizon was enticing. The area was silhouetted by the distant…
This is just a quick post to reminisce about an image taken during my youth … an early effort at environmental portraiture on a fire scene. I thought this guy exhibited a lot of character in the way he carried himself. The…
We’ve been taught that the viewer’s eye will be drawn to the brightest portion of an image … which promotes the need for an understanding of lighting, composition, and contrast. But what if you have an image that begs to…
Photographing a fire scene at night poses several challenges, chief among them being lighting, but smoke, water mist, and rain are a few of the obstacles waiting to trip up a photographer. Realizing also that a fire scene is not a posed…