Whereupon I had the good fortune of photographing a rare mattress pyre in it's larval, or precombusted, stage.
Writer, Director, Editor, DP, and Photographer
Fishing in Ohio
The Ruin in the Forest
It was a deep, dark afternoon in the lonesome October, when Josey, Wicket and I, off for a stroll in the heart of the forest, came upon an image that made our blood run cold. A ruin stood before us, daring us to enter its dilapidated walls.
The place was heavily locked with a loose chain, but we devised a means of ingress by slipping through the fence doors.
Were we the first to uncover this forgotten place since time immemorial? We didn't know.
We decided we'd been there long enough for our comfort when all of a sudden we heard what sounded like voices. Startled, we departed with haste, only to discover the voices were coming from outside! Ahead of us... just beyond the fence... were a group of teenagers waiting patiently for us to leave because they didn't want to interrupt our photo session.
Haunted Mansion, Catskills
Josey and I were excited to happen upon a clearly haunted mansion during our trip to the Catskills a few weeks before Halloween. She wanted a closer look, and while I of course went with her, I was admittedly less interested in approaching a gigantic structure that was, without question, collapsing in on itself. So I hung back, suggesting she do the same in a half-assed way, because I knew she wouldn’t and I was aware that I was essentially advising her to have less fun.
I didn't look through the window. I didn't see what she saw, the thing that made us leave with haste.
It was a dark room littered with dusty junk. Light from the waning day shone through a hole in the ceiling. A mattress slumped on the wall to her right. But in the middle of the floor was something that stood entirely separate from the surrounding detritus: a woman's purse.
Who... or what... did the purse belong to?
We figured the answer was "junkies," so we got the hell out of there.
Giant Ledge, Catskills
Panorama made from 40 HDR images, comprised of 120 images taken at 100mm.
My Dog Turned Two Hooray I'm Not a Crazy Dog Person
Just to be clear, we did not make the flower crowns for her birthday, we got them from a baby shower earlier in the day and figured we might as well repurpose them.
Good news!
This is living right off our porch.
Blue Moon 2015
Trumped
EDIT 2/15/16: This post doesn't quite feel as whimsical as when I first took it but I don't care, my dog won.
EDIT 1/21/17: There is nothing funny about this post anymore and I regret it but I don't care, my dog won.
Okay, so, I Trumped the dog, which is a thing people are mainly doing with cats where you brush them and make a toupee with the fur:
And the TrumpYourCat Instagram account, which is credited by knowyourmeme.com to be the source of the spread of this critically important historic movement, included it in this photo:
#1 baby. And also, this is the first time someone has taken a picture of mine and done anything with it, so I think we can say:
I’ve Arrived.
Cascade Mountain, Adirondacks
Candyland
HEY!
Wicket in the back yard
Dream Car
Not everyone will use the words "dream car" and "Beetle" in the same sentence, but I just did!
Farm in Western PA
I took this photo from a train in Western PA. I felt kind of stupid taking pictures out the window and I was certain they'd all be crap but this one turned out good.
Candy Corn Cityscape
I took this by pressing my iPhone up against a tight-linked fence in Queens while cursing that I didn't have my camera. iPhone HDR did pretty good though, then I developed it in Lightroom on iPad. This is the first photo I didn't touch on my computer. Josey said it looked like candy corn.
Memorial Day in Queens
Spring
This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
We clearly made her feel really bad. I think she learned her lesson.
The One Time I Manage to Take a Photo on Set
and this is it.
