Taken October 1, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA.
I shot these images this past Saturday at the Revolutionary Germantown Festival. View the rest of the photo set here. The accompanying back story about the Festival and the re-enactment of the Battle of Germantown of October 4, 1777 can be found here.
I’ll be posting outtakes from the day to my Facebook page and on other social media sites in the next few days, so be on the lookout.
The good news keeps coming, everyone. I am completely overwhelmed.
I just learned late last night that one of my photos (Dog Loves That Human) that was selected to be shown as part of the Project Greenville-sponsored “Images of Jersey City” group exhibit that opens today was also selected with four other photos to accompany a write-up about the exhibit on the NJ.com/Jersey Journal website!!!
The write-up by Summer Dawn Hortillosa of the Jersey Journal is here, and the link to my photo is here. Go check it all out and tell me what you think! I was stunned, since I’m pretty new to this game!!!
With all that said, I’d like to take a moment to send my thanks and appreciation to Elizabeth Deegan, founder of Project Greenville and chief organizer of the “Images” group exhibit and the other judges, Jersey City Free Public Library Head Librarian Cynthia Harris and photographers Gary Nigh and Andrew Bovasso.
Also, I’d like to congratulate the other four talented photographers whose stunning images accompanied the Jersey Journal piece: Felipe Lara, Lorenzo Pickett, Max Delgado, and Dale Luker. I am humbled to be a part of this group.
Finally, I’d like to send a big thank you to all of my friends, family and fellow photographers who have been a major source of encouragement and support over the past year. Without you, I don’t think I would have made it this far…I would have thrown in the towel and walked away. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
What a fabulous way to kick off the weekend!!!
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In lieu of my regular Photo of the Day post, I wanted to take a moment to make a special announcement…..
I am really, really, really happy to announce that 5 of my photos will be included in a group exhibition entitled “Images of Jersey City,” sponsored by Project Greenville. They are: Faded Royalty, Audubon Park I (see below; Audubon Park II can be seen here), The God Wall, Late Practice, and Dog Loves That Human.
In My Hood (Audubon Park I). Taken August 27, 2010 in Jersey City, NJ
This exhibit is near and dear to my heart because I lived in the Greenville section of Jersey City for 3 years before moving to Philadelphia. Subsequently, I took a lot of photos there and in other JC neighborhoods. So I’m really excited about this exhibit because it will hopefully continue to attract a lot of positive attention for a community that could really use some.
I want to send a big shout out to Elizabeth Deegan, exhibit organizer and the mastermind behind this effort. She is to be commended for her energy, vision, generosity, focus and tenacity. I would have never known about this opportunity if she hadn’t popped over to my blog a few months ago to check out my photograph of the Faded Royalty mural I took up in Jersey City Heights back in November, 2010. She worked singlehandedly to generate a lot of buzz about this exhibit and was successful in getting a lot of attention and press.
People like her are the reason why it was so hard for me to leave Jersey City, but people like her are the reason why I still have hope in humanity and in the arts. Without people like her, emerging artists and photographers like me would have limited or no opportunities to showcase our works to new audiences, audiences that may never get a chance to see themselves and their communities in the work that we produce. I won’t get on my pro-art and free-expression soapbox here, but those of you who know me well know how I feel about this issue.
At any rate, the exhibit will feature the works of over 20 photographers..all things Jersey City, New Jersey, which is really cool. Jersey City has a lot of offer and I can personally say from having lived there, it definitely has its share of diverse people, places and things, and it deserves a lot more attention other than the fact that it’s across the river from NYC and convenient to the PATH trains. I know that my counterparts did a fantastic job capturing the essence of what is Jersey City through their lenses. Many congratulations to all of them.
So…..if you’re in the NYC/north Jersey area and want to check out some awesome photography, the exhibit opens this coming Saturday, May 14th from 3:00 – 8:00 pm with a reception. It will be open to the viewing public on the following Saturdays: May 21, May 28, June 4 and June 11 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm. Also, it will be open on Friday, June 3rd, from 3:00 – 7:00 pm as part of JC Fridays. If these times don’t fit your schedule, appointments can be made to view the exhibit by calling (646) 361-1858. There will be a closing party Saturday, June 18th from 3:00 -8:00 pm. Click here to see the nice flyer that was produced to announce the exhibition.
So here we go!!! Let’s get it in 2011!
Taken November 2, 2010 in Jersey City, NJ.
Image via Wikipedia
So I’m on Facebook, perusing my stream and I come across this post from Time magazine: The Top 10 Old Leaders?!?!?
WTF?!!?
So I decided to take a peek, to satisfy my curiosity.
Here’s the list.
Let’s look at the raw numbers. First, the average age is 80.8 years. I’ve posted the individual ages above. The “youngest” leader is 74 and the “oldest” of the old leaders is 86. Wow.
The average length of time spent in their present position is approximately 17.4 years. Obviously you have a wide distribution here, from 4 years (Castro) to 58 (Queen Elizabeth).
Okay. I don’t know about you, but I don’t see anything here that makes me want to jump up and down and do a dance of joy. Given the state of world affairs these days, I wonder how much of this is attributed to a generation that stubbornly refuses to let go of the reins of power.
From where I sit, these folks are holding on…. until the day we have to pry the reins out of their cold, lifeless clutches.
Not what I had in mind when I went to college, slogged my way through graduate school, worked and worked and worked, did everything right like I was expected to, and I have nothing to show for it.
Pretty sobering reality, until I had a chance to read this list.
It’s pretty good work if you can get it.
Gen Xers, if you want to be a leader, you’re gonna have to go out and make opportunities for yourself. What I realized is that no one is going to just “move out of the way” and give you a chance.
Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t have anything against the elderly, my elders, those who have lived long and productive lives, working hard and contributing to their spheres of influence. But how can you guarantee some sense of continuity, the passing of the torch, as you will, if these folks insist on staying in charge until they’re 120 years old?
As I’ve seen personally in my career, rarely is there a formal succession plan in place to facilitate the orderly transfer of power from one generation to another. It’s almost like it’s supposed to magically happen.
But as we all know, it doesn’t magically handed. The newly installed leader usually gets handed a 5 pound bag of shit in a half-pound bag. It’s almost like he/she is getting set up to fail.
And then the finger-pointing and blaming ensue: “He’s too young, too inexperienced, too this, too that.” And that usually is the end of that person’s career. And what follows? They’ll go and find some 95-year-old geezer to run the company into the ground.
I don’t know what to make of this foolishness anymore.
This sucks.
Right after I finished posting on my quest to find a good wi-fi spot…I came across this article. Luckily, the branch near my apartment is a regional one, so….
But this still isn’t good for many JC residents who will have to travel to access library resources.
Shameful.
I hope this didn’t have anything to do with the overdue books from 2008 that I finally brought back today.
:-/
Here are some rainy day photos I snapped yesterday while I was out and about in Jersey City. I hope you enjoy them.
Once I got down to the Jersey City waterfront, I spent most of my time shooting images of the Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal. Here are some of my favorites.
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Yesterday, I took a long walk over to West Side Avenue, which cuts through Jersey City’s West Side section.
Check out the slideshow below of some of my favorite images from that photowalk.
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When I photograph Himself, I always think of the character Wilson, from the TV series “Home Improvement. Wilson was Tim’s next door neighbor. We never saw Wilson’s face. Wilson always had something philosophical to say, and he always used big words that most of us can’t pronounce or don’t know the meaning of. I call those $10 words.
I took this while he was hard at work on his computer, typing away, intently. If you look closely you’ll notice steam coming from his ear. Just kidding.
