My partner Mark and I are about to purchase a second home, north of the city, in Highland, New York. It’s going to serve as our weekend getaway. Although photography wasn’t a consideration when contemplating purchasing a second home, one of the many benefits of being able to escape New York City is that I’ll be in a new photographic…
Nowadays, when people talk about “the future”, it can encompass any number of distant time periods: Next year? After the pandemic? Ten years from now? Well, I was born in 1960, and when I was a kid, the future pretty much meant one thing: the year 2000. The new millennium was everyone’s common point of reference when we talked about…
As I mentioned in a recent blog post, I undertook a cool photo project in 2021. I endeavored to take at least one new, interesting photo every day, whether I was in the mood or not. Being forced to think about photography every day definitely opened my eyes to photographic subjects and opportunities that I definitely would have passed by…
I decided to stroll to Fotografiska to sit and drink tea, and read a book. It’s too cold to walk around comfortably and take photos, so I usually look for indoor activities (museums, bookstores, cafes, etc.) However, the cloudy, gray, cold atmosphere led to a few nice photographic opportunities, especially as I strolled through Madison Square Park, and so I…
The northeast got hit with a pretty good snowstorm. When the snow hits NYC, you have a few hours to photograph the beauty of it before it turns to black, nasty slush. When I went out, however, I quickly discovered how mind-numbingly cold it is outside: 15 degrees, with a wind chill making it feel like -1. My photo walk…
I think I’ve been to most of the museums in Amsterdam’s Centrum. There is a museum that’s not in the Centrum, though, that I’d heard about and wanted to visit: it’s called Straat, and it’s a museum for graffiti and street art. The museum is north of the Centrum. You have to take the ferry over, and then either walk…
The Amsterdam Forest is huge! It’s 2500 acres, which is about three times the size of Central Park in New York City. The place is famous for all it has to offer. There’s an area called De Bosbaan, which is a rowing course, for people who do recreational and competitive rowing. There are ponds for swimming, a man-made beach, camping…
Amsterdam is a great museum city, and going to the different museums is by far my favorite activity when I’m there. I like photography, and I always make it my business to stop by the two photography museums, FOAM and Huis Marseille. If I’m lucky, some of the other museums will also have a photography exhibit. Well, I got majorly…
Here’s the last installment of this three-part post of the best/my favorite photos from my visit to Amsterdam in 2021. It’s a pretty diverse collection.
I’ve visited Amsterdam many times over the past 20 years, and going to parks is a favorite activity of mine when I’m there, but I’ve managed to somehow miss this park over the years. Like most tourists, I tend to stick to the most popular parks – Vondelpark, Westerpark, and Oosterpark. Well, now that I’m not a tourist, I figured…
Continuing from the last blog post, here are 25 more of my favorite photos from my recent Amsterdam visit.
It started exactly a year ago. I wanted to improve my technical skills as a photographer, and my photo editing skills as well. Although I’m constantly reading books and watching videos about photography, there really is no substitute for just getting out there and shooting, shooting, shooting. I read an article that was emailed to me by the iPhone Photography…
Sarphatipark – Named after the Jewish doctor and philanthropist Samuel Sarphati, this small park is a nice chunk of green space right in the middle of the trendy neighborhood, De Pijp. Not surprisingly, this is one of the first parks I explored when I visited Amsterdam, because it’s in De Pijp. This neighborhood is just south of the Centrum. It’s…
A few years ago, I read Demick’s book “Nothing to Envy”, about life in North Korea, and it was fascinating. In her new book, she explores another mysterious part of the world, the town of Ngaba, eleven thousand feet above sea level, in Tibet. It was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese communists encountered one…