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Category Archives: portraits

Translating Clients Tastes into Archival Silver Gelatin Photographs

My photography clients’ personalities and interests influence both how I photograph for them and how I print the photographs for their albums and framing. When I visited with a recent client to go over their photos for their wedding album, I noticed the sculptures that adorned their shelves. These were pre-Columbian sculptures that they enjoy [...]

We Have the Photograph

When a family member passes, nothing replaces the photographs you have of them. This wonderful grandmother attended the wedding of her grandson.

Photos Mean Family

Family photographs can capture more than faces at a particular time. They can show fun and togetherness. They can show love and pride. They can mean that two sets of brothers are now together because of the new marriage of their parents. These are silver gelatin black & white prints.

A Fall Engagement

This Fall the leaves in New York City have turned to brilliant reds and yellows. One Saturday I photographed an engagement couple in their favorite haunts around Columbus Circle and Central Park.

Dogs, Cats, Horses, Oh My!

By “Oh My!”, I mean that our love for the animals we care for, our pets, gives us much in return. We can acknowledge this love with a pendant that we wear or sit on our steps with our beloved dog for the family portrait. Next post will be about horses!

Photo Tip: How To Keep Up With Your Children

I find that one of the best ways to keep up with photographing your children is through being with them at places they love and with their favorite friends and animals. Children keep their loves as they grow. This is a wonderful way to document their lives. Here are two more photos that show growing [...]

Family Time

Gestures of Love

This post is a continuation of the one written two weeks ago. I finally had time to print 8X10s of my client and her two lovely daughters. These new silver gelatin prints are much lovelier than the proof prints. I like to interpret as I print. If you go back to the last post you [...]

A Gesture of Love

It started with a gesture. I was sitting with a client and her two little ones in a cafe. Her youngest popped up on her lap and she reached out and held her daughter’s head with her hands. I asked her if she was aware of her loving gesture. She said yes. Such was the [...]

Portraits in Palladium

I have a lot of fun printing with Palladium. The post before this one, done with palladium, is a set of photographs printed together to tell a story. Here are single palladium photographs. The first photographs are from medium format negatives and one is from a 4X5″ negative. Remember that palladium printing is a contact [...]