There isn't a lot to say about the pictures in this post. I grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, so a lot of my early photography centers on DC, Baltimore and the surrounding area. Not many people seem to be FROM the DC area, but I am and I still find it a great source of photographic subjects. Above: Looking north on Rockville Pike from Montrose Road in December 1992.
The Smithsonian Institution Castle - Washington National Mall - 1992
The Lincoln Memorial - Washington National Mall, 1992. I didn't want the same old postcard, so I shot through the fountains. The fencing is there to keep the public out of the fireworks launching area.
Okay, so this is pretty much the same old postcard shot of the Jefferson Memorial through cherry blossoms, across the Tidal Basin in 1997. I could not resist that pink sky. There's a reason everyone takes this type of shot: It works.
Chief Zee and 54,566 friends at RFK Stadium, cheering the Washington Redskins to a playoff victory over the Los Angeles Rams on December 28, 1986.
The north span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge under an ominous summer sky in 1985. No, I wasn't driving. This time.
The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, destination of my first train trip with my dad. This photo comes from over two decades later - 1996. The museum was closed, so this rainy scene was actually shot through a chain-link fence.
The Montgomery County Fair - Gaithersburg, MD - 1991. There are actually dozens of people between the camera and the ticket booth near the lower left corner, but the long exposure helped them to do what I love having people do in my photos - vanish!
There isn't a lot to say about the pictures in this post. I grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, so a lot of my early photography centers on DC, Baltimore and the surrounding area. Not many people seem to be FROM the DC area, but I am and I still find it a great source of photographic subjects. Above: Looking north on Rockville Pike from Montrose Road in December 1992.
The Smithsonian Institution Castle - Washington National Mall - 1992
The Lincoln Memorial - Washington National Mall, 1992. I didn't want the same old postcard, so I shot through the fountains. The fencing is there to keep the public out of the fireworks launching area.
Okay, so this is pretty much the same old postcard shot of the Jefferson Memorial through cherry blossoms, across the Tidal Basin in 1997. I could not resist that pink sky. There's a reason everyone takes this type of shot: It works.
Chief Zee and 54,566 friends at RFK Stadium, cheering the Washington Redskins to a playoff victory over the Los Angeles Rams on December 28, 1986.
The north span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge under an ominous summer sky in 1985. No, I wasn't driving. This time.
The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, destination of my first train trip with my dad. This photo comes from over two decades later - 1996. The museum was closed, so this rainy scene was actually shot through a chain-link fence.
The Montgomery County Fair - Gaithersburg, MD - 1991. There are actually dozens of people between the camera and the ticket booth near the lower left corner, but the long exposure helped them to do what I love having people do in my photos - vanish!
Later in 1985, the space shuttle orbitor Enterprise took a couple of low-altitude laps around the Capital Beltway atop a modified NASA 747, en route to its retirement in a hangar at Dulles Airport. With a borrowed 70-210mm zoom, I was able to catch it as it flew over Chevy Chase, MD.
January 1986. Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The USS Constellation, under an overcast sky. Again, the exposure was fully automatic, but I was beginning to see the lines and angles, perspective, balance and context that would influence my composition as I continued to learn.
January 1987 - Icicles! Young photographers just adore icicles. Leaning out the den window to shoot these as they were rapidly melting, I was lucky not to lose an eye. This was one of my first black & white shots. I do everything out of sequence..jpg)
January 1987. I was in San Francisco at the end of my last, best railroad excursion with my father. The man in this photo had been working at the top of this tall ship's rigging when we passed, on our way to Pier 39 at Fisherman's Wharf for lunch. On our way back out, we happened to catch him as he climbed back down. It was one of the first times I had planned a composition and executed it exactly as I had intended.
Summer 1987 - Sparrow in Dogwood. Birds are a pain to photograph, but this little guy was cooperative enough to get the shot. I tried to mimic his call, and this seemed to fascinate him. Each time I whistled, he turned his head to listen and then -click-.+-+1987.jpg)
Summer 1987 - Lincoln Memorial, looking over the sleeping tourist toward the Washington Monument and Capitol. You can't be a photographer in the DC area without shooting the architecture on the Mall.