Furry Faces – Kitties at the SPCA

Did the doggies, and here’s my first shoot with the kitties.  I knew photographing the cats would be different than the dogs, but I had never been confined in a small room with a few dozen cats before! I managed to make it through all the cats on the list and...

Furry Faces – my first photo shoot at the SPCA

I just did my first photo shoot at the Pennsylvania SPCA in Philadelphia.  I’m not a pet photographer but after doing this, I might consider becoming one! Especially for a first timer, I’ve very happy with how these turned out. My equipment: my trusty...

When life hands you an apple, make applesauce

Or just take some totally cool and fun photos! I wanted to do some water shots with apples, so I looked for apples that weren’t a solid color. I found some that had a lovely mixture of red and green/yellow tones.  Finding apples that had the right “look” was easy –...

Water Drop Magic – a fun photo technique

This is what I do when I’ve got some spare time to play!  I’m calling this “water drop magic” because with a simple technique you can create some totally cool photographs. The magic of this technique is not so much capturing the water drops splashing, but taking...

Return of the Furniture Guys

Remember “The Furniture Guys” from TLC and PBS? You can still see lots of their shows on YouTube. I’ve known Furniture Guy Ed Feldman for a couple of years now and recently he asked me to take a few photos of him with his cohort Joe L’Erario. The Furniture Guys...

Appeasing the Ghosts: Resurrecting Moriah

Earlier this month I had my first visit to the massive (approximately 380 acres) Mount Moriah Cemetery located in Philadelphia and Yeadon, PA.  I attending a volunteer clean up day to photographically document the efforts of the volunteers, the condition of the...