So, after what seems like an interminable wait, the Mission Rabies Tanzania journey begins. My college buddy, Mike Rosen, is joining me on this trip, and he arrives here in New York in about 8 hours. He’ll stay overnight, and then we both depart from JFK airport tomorrow evening. In these times of Covid-19, planning this trip has been a…
Day 8 Today was very cold out, and I had a million things to do in preparation for my upcoming trip to Tanzania, so I didn’t get to go out today. As my fallback, I employed Glitter, my muse, in the service of this project and got a lovely portrait of her as she sat on my printer. Day 9…
Day 6 A bit of a dull day, photowise. I went out in the morning and took a nice photo of the Empire State Building on my walk to the gym. That was the main pic of the day. I got a quick picture of a dog, shooting stealthily from my hip. It got cut off, but editing it in…
Day 4: Gloomy day today. I ended up not going out this afternoon, so I’m glad I took a few pictures this morning while on the way to the gym. While at the gym, I saw these two women who always come in together, with their little elderly chihuahua in tow. The dog is always in a little baby carriage,…
Last year, I went to Ghana for a Mission Rabies project. I got to see several small village communities and I took many great photos. I’ll be going to Tanzania in mid-January for another Mission Rabies project, and I wanted to read some inspirational photography books to prepare me for (what I hope will be) more excellent photography opportunities. This…
Gross, gloomy day outside, but I had to go out to Union Square, so I was able to grab a bunch of photos. Tough choice picking my favorite for today, but I went with this reflection photo. I like how it shows the Black Lives Matter street art and the NYPD car in the same frame. The runners up: This…
Location: Union Square Camera: Ricoh GR III Title: Crack Kills Other pics I took today that I considered: Glitter on the window sill. Taken with the iPhone. Converted to black and white. This is a Buddha Hand. It’s a weird (and expensive) citrus fruit. Saw it at the supermarket today, and took a photo with the iPhone, in portrait mode. …
With 2020 finally over, I’m ready to start the new year with a new project. I’m going to take one good photo every day and post it on social media. I will use either my iPhone, my Ricoh GR III, or my new Fuji XT-30. The photo has to have been taken that day; I won’t save up a few…
What a year. I knew, going into 2020, that it was going to be a tense, traumatic year. After all, it was an election year, and the thought that Donald Trump – the sleaziest, slimiest, most vile and corrupt president in the history of this nation – could be re-elected already guaranteed a high level of stress. Little did I…
BONUS IMAGE: I found this one from my Ghana collection that I had not posted.
Regular readers of my blog know that even though I retired from veterinary practice three years ago, I’ve remained active in the veterinary community. I still author the bimonthly “The Vet Is In” column for Catster magazine, and I still pop into Dr. Soboroff’s practice, New York Cat Hospital, every now and then to visit him and Dr. Sheheri and…
After I purchased the Ricoh GR III it rained heavily for two days straight, preventing me from going out and taking my first photos. On the third day, it was beautiful and sunny, so I headed to Chinatown and the Lower East Side, two neighborhoods with a lot of character. My initial camera settings for that day were: Single frame…