Posts Tagged ‘National Park Service’
A FIRST LOOK….. WHERE DC Guestbook
WHERE MAGAZINE produces the annual “Where Guestbook” which is distributed throughout DC hotels, businesses and destinations. I am delighted to have the opening ten pages in the book and the final page. Editor Jean Lawlor Cohen and Art Director Teri Samuels are responsible for the selection and design of the article. Jean and I have discussed this for several years and so I am extremely happy that it came to fruition in such a beautiful piece.
FALL PHOTOGRAPHY 2014
As we coast to the end of the Honor Flight Flying Season, I’ve already talked to several people who have made reservations for the Summit. Obviously, we can’t get enough Honor Flight! I photographed over one hundred Honor Flight hubs at the Memorial this year.
A Memorial Comes to Life
We took down the show at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial yesterday and as we strolled out, I looked back and realized what an amazing opportunity it had been to show my work in such a gorgeous well-lit space in the middle of ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.
WWII Memorial: Fall Flying Season
BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!”The Fall Flying Season is on and Honor Flight Hubs are arriving almost daily. There are over 136 hubs spread across 42 states. They all fly several times a year. I try to stop by as often as possible as it remains an exciting and ultimately life-changing experience.
WWII Memorial: Honoring our Heroes 2014
During that week, Boeing printed and distributed 1.6 million posters of one of my night images and the Washington Post ran 39 pages on the WWII Memorial. A productive time but no one I believe thought that the WWII Memorial would become the most popular attraction on the Washington Mall drawing 4.5-5 million people a year. Too bad they don’t have a bookstore, eh?
WWII Memorial Exhibit at WIMSA
WIMSA (WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE TO AMERICA) is probably the best-kept secret in Washington, DC. It is is one of the more significant yet invisible architectural triumphs in DC. It is so in perfectly attuned to the cemetery’s overall facade that it goes unnoticed. The interior of the Memorial has sweeping forty foot ceilings half of which are skylights which blow vast amounts of light into the interior, so much so that I am constantly surprised that the prints show no sign of fading
Honor Flight Book Ordering
I will not be reprinting books this year and I am working out an arrangement with Amazon to fulfill all orders come 2015 They are far more efficient and are already taking care of all single book purchases. They may not be delivering your books by drone but they have made self-publishing practical. …which brings me to….
Infrared Photography II: DC PHOTO BOOK
White balance seems to be the key to infrared imaging. It’s been bitterly cold in Washington, DC and I am still not quite sure what the infrared sensor is recording and it seems that my histograms are always relatively substantial. I have been using a combination of the Lens baby which requires guessing at the exposures,
Infrared Photography: DC PHOTO BOOK
As an early adopter of digital imaging, I have had the opportunity to explore and write about the transition from film to digital. It’s been an impressive technological march. In 2000, I wrote and illustrated a story for Lexar Media on the possibilities of simulating the look of Infrared film images using digital cameras. That […]
DC PHOTO BOOK: The C&O Canal
The C&O Canal at 30th Street. The Canal was a project dreamed up by George Washington and he saw it as the Nation’s Gateway to the West. It stretches up to Cumberland, Maryland and I have done the trip by bicycle (The Washington Post) and by car (National Geographic Traveler). Ironically, by time the Canal was finished, the majority of the cargo carried was coal for the train which ran parallel to it and eventually put it out of business.
WWII Memorial
This Fall has been a wonderful for photography and for the experience of working with wonderful people. Here Senators Robert and Elizabeth Dole pose with Dave Smith of Honor Flight San Diego. Breitling Watches and their team
WWII Memorial Heroes
Jewel of the Mall. Today, veterans from Chicago, Kansas and Missouri visited the WWII Memorial and had to be shielded from the many Congressman and Senators who showed up for a free photo op when the nation is shut down because of their incompetence.
Tidewater Epub on Amazon
Tidewater: The Chesapeake Bay in Photographs” is now uploaded to the Amazon website and can be downloaded instantly for your reading pleasure on almost any device. Cool Technology!
DC PHOTO BOOK: Lincoln Views
I am still editing images from last week’s photo shoot on the Mall. The next edition of DC PHOTO BOOK: An Insider’s View will be richer for the experience. It’s been an amazing summer for photography and I am lucky to have a small business which allows me to pursue
Tidewater: Last Daze of Summer
These are a few images I’ve made around the Herrington Harbour Marina area. Workboats, sailboats, powerboats…they are all gorgeous and possible inclusions in the new edition of “Tidewater: the Chesapeake Bay in Photographs”.
March on Washington, DC: 1983
This picture was taken shortly before the speakers began at the 20th Anniversary of the “March on Washington” in 1983
Tidewater: Chesapeake Images
“Witchcraft”, a 1902 wooden sailing vessel berthed for the night at Herrington Harbour Marina. It’s a work of art and history. There is a video on the yacht’s website which shows you how little room you get in a 52 foot wooden yacht! The wooden rocking chair on the stern is just the perfect touch!
Martin Luther King Memorial
On my regular “rounds” of the Monuments, I stopped by to see the Martin Luther King Memorial. Last year, I had the pleasure of contacting the King Foundation for the permission to use a picture for the DC PHOTO BOOK and so it is the only general DC book sold in the MLK bookstore. You can also get it […]
DC PHOTO BOOK
I stopped at the WWII Memorial tonight to see how the construction on the West wall is going. Not so good….and it looks like another month. Hopefully we will have an intact Memorial before long. It’s what we Washingtonians call the “silly season” i
WWII Memorial: Hidden Gems
The Ceremonial Gardens are just behind and to the West of the Atlantic Pavillion. They were designed by James A. Van Sweden, the landscape architect for the Memorial. Until recently, the area always seemed either incomplete or in disrepair but today, the gardens looked perfect. It’s an overlooked and tranquil setting: a nice place to host
Friends of the National WWII Memorial sponsor show
Friends of the National World War II Memorial have joined the Women in Military Service For America Memorial in sponsoring the printing of the eighty-five images from my WWII Memorial project. The show is coming together and about ninety percent of the prints are in place. We are printing up the last ten percent and designing […]
VE DAY: WWII Memorial
Several hundred people gathered at the WWII Memorial today to celebrate the 68th Anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day at the WWII Memorial. In attendance were the board of Directors of Friends of the WWII Memorial, reprsentatives Karen Curcurullo and Robin Owen of the National Park Service as well as an Honor Flight from Tucson Arizona. There was a moving re-enlistment ceremony and Holocaust survivors and WWII veterans placed wreaths in front of the Wall of Stars. The rains held off and in fact the weather was quite beautiful. The Memorial is a far better place with water than without. Great credit goes to Terry and the National Park Service for getting the fountains running.
Be There or Be Square
A show of my images at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial on June 12, 2013 for at least six months. I am delighted! The museum is cradled into the main entrance of Arlington Memorial Cemetery and its beautifully lit interior is a photographer’s dream. The opening is 6-8 PM and everyone who’s […]
National Cherry Blossom Books Signings
I will have the grood fortune to be signing the WWII MEMORIAL and DC PHOTO BOOKS this Monday April 1st (1-4 PM) and Thursday April 4th (1-4 PM) at the National Park Service Cherry Blossom Festival tent run by Eastern National. Watching the anticipation and transition on the Mall from gloomy Winter into exuberant Spring is always fascinating. I am also hoping to do a morning broadcast on WTTG/ Fox news show sometime during the week.