Last summer I visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the first time in decades, photographing its zoo’s animals and walking through neighboring areas, Grand Army Plaza and Park Slope. I also visited the Brooklyn Museum of Art to finally see a pair of statues flanking its entrance: Manhattan and Brooklyn, by my favorite American sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). Capturing these allegorical female figures had long been on my bucket list.
Read MoreMy original idea for this photo blog was to capture people reading hardcover and paperback books, particularly young people who grew up in our ever growing digitized world.
Read MoreDuring the fifteenth century, a tall, multi-ton block of marble lay abandoned for decades in a courtyard at the Florence Cathedral. It has since become one of the world’s most celebrated pieces of stone, and I got to photograph it in intimate detail.
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My sister searched for gold; I seized a golden opportunity for candid photos. While she browsed the jewelry shops that line the Ponte Vecchio, the iconic bridge crossing the Arno River in Florence, I stood on its bustling walkway, firing my Nikon at any pedestrian within clear sight of my long lens.
Miami Beach boasts the world’s greatest concentration of art deco buildings, which reflect a distinct era in American history—along with the can-do attitude that has defined the nation. From the Great Depression years through the 1940s, architects in the Miami area designed dominantly within the umbrella of styles now known as art deco, and some nine hundred structures in this genre remain. They rose amid economic hard times and evoked technological modernity, resilience, and optimism.
Read MoreFifteen miles from the Las Vegas Strip’s brilliant lights of limitless colors lies Red Rock Canyon, a seemingly misnamed national conservation area of multicolored rock formations.
Read MoreThe buildings beckoned me to return. On a recent trip to Roanoke, I drove around the city nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia and several Art Deco structures caught my eye.
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