I began photographing the Delaware River in earnest about five years ago. For me, there’s peacefulness and power about the river and a misleading sense of permanence. Often, yesterday’s scene is left in tatters after a flood, or whole sections of the riverbed become land during a drought. I try to capture the fickle mix of change and stability, particularly when the light is falling.
Typically, I simply walk along the river until something grabs my attention. I’m drawn to man-made objects that have been transformed by the flow and by patterns of branches, water and light that reflect the mood on the river. When I succeed, I feel I’ve shared a moment that otherwise might have gone unnoticed.
As I became more serious about photographing, I was drawn to landscapes and to the work of Elliot Porter, who saw in patterns of nature something of the way its forces unfold. In my work, I try somehow to freeze eons of change into the instant the shutter clicks.
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I've worked with all film and digital formats and am an eager student of the stunning pace of photographic technology.
As a member of the Gallery 14 fine-art photo gallery in
I've written on photography and technology for: View Camera, Consumer Reports, Computer Shopper, CNET Networks, Personal Computing, and others. I report and photograph for local publications, including the Bucks
Earlier, as director of editorial development at CNET Networks, I produced the annual College Buying Guide for several years, created technology special issues for Fortune magazine, and did custom-publishing projects for AT&T, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Insight, Intel, and other technolgy companies.
During most of the 1990s, I was editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper magazine and produced the College Buying Guide and special issues on Web buying and technology. I've been editor or executive editor at: Personal Computing, Computer Dealer, and Small Business Computers. As a book editor at Rodale Press, I specialized in how-to-do-it projects and solar design.
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I'll also discuss getting into photography, what gear does the best, and making sense of PhotoShop.