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My first experience with a Hasselblad X1D II 50C.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 the Hasselblad Experience Studio organized a 2 hour NYC photo walk with special guests, Hugh and Claudia Brownstone, the delightful and talented team behind Three Blind Men & an Elephant. This was a dream opportunity to photographically explore NYC’s West Village with a pair of street photography professionals who cheerfully…
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Their Ancestors Survived the Last Great Extinction. Will Horseshoe crabs Survive Us?
It’s that time of the year again on Long Island, Atlantic horseshoe crabs (Limulus Polyphemus) travel from the depths of the ocean to cruise our beaches in search of romantic rendezvous. Female horseshoe crabs carry thousands of eggs to deposit in the sand at the upper edges of the high tide line. Males follow, jostling…
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Discovering the Common Slipper Shells on a Winter Beach Walk
The local beaches in December can be just as magical as they are in the middle of July, and you don’t have to battle the crowds for a spot in the parking lot. Settling down on your beach chair in the sand may not be the most comfortable thing to do but a nice old-fashioned…
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Pandion Perspective on Life
This marsh and this nest have been constants in my life since 2003. Each year, around March 15th, I’ve awaited the ospreys’ return to this nest. Each year they have returned, and alway do their best to raise young. They’ve rarely failed, but even when they have they come back the next year and try…
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Morning walk after July full moon
Last night’s moon has a history of being called the “buck moon”. That’s apparently a name given to it long ago by native American tribes. But the July 2018 full moon is also being called the “blood moon” by sky watchers because of the reddish tint it took on during the total lunar eclipse. We…
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Jesus was an Immigrant
My Notes from the OLA Immigration and Civil Rights Forum at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton, NY. February 21, 2017 I sat behind these parents with one child sitting on a lap and the other nuzzled against a shoulder. Fear and concern about the future weighs heavy among all who…
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On a Road in Madagascar
He walked past me on the paved road that transects the rainforest as I stood on the side inhaling the scent of wet leaves. Camera held up near my heart ready to capture the moment when that dancing butterfly lands on the flower nearby – not this time, it flutters away in another direction. ~…
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