The high school sailing season is actually coming to a close! But a couple weeks back I had the opportunity to join the Middletown and Rogers High School Sailing teams at Newport Yacht Club as they hosted a unique event for JV sailors across the state. This 7 school event allowed the junior varsities to team race other schools in a formal setting, an opportunity that may not otherwise occur for...
It's been a slow start to the high school sailing season this year. The North Kingstown team was delayed a few weeks from ice covering the harbor. As things began to thaw it looked like warm weather had arrived, but soon enough it was back to cold gray wintery conditions.About a month into the season I finally got on the water to join the team! It was a 3-way regatta against Portsmouth Abbey and...
I have thousands upon thousands of photos from the past couple years, and inevitably some get left behind. Folders of personal work take the backburner for other projects, and are soon forgotten. While I strive to look through all my images and edit the keepers as soon as possible, I don't always succeed.But when I find free time I go back to these forgotten folders and give them another look....
Well hopefully that was the last of it. Let's cross our fingers and hope Old Man Winter will finally have some mercy! But at least this last snowfall was the sticky picturesque winter wonderland kind that fell softly and beautifully throughout the day. No biting breeze or extreme subzero temperatures, just a soft white snowfall to welcome March. I took an hour long walk through sleepy snowy...
Interior photography isn't always as easy as it seems! Many professionals shoot with several strobe lights, tethered to a laptop, and with one or more assistants. Every chair and pillow must be just right, every frame must be level, the scene can't look sparse but it can't looked cluttered either... absolutely no element can be overlooked. In all of my time assisting for interior shoots, and now...
