Trying a different tact for this website. I will make an effort to add new content once per week. Each being an event or memory that holds meaning to me and hopefully interest to viewers.
The image above taken at sunset over Tupper Lake in the Moody area via an Iphone showed me that I really need to get out more. Explore, experience and record what I see and feel. Get back to those things that drove me to make this a lifelong career. Find the passion for photography once again.
Corona virus and isolation.
Working from home has always been my standard operating procedure. But now that it has been “imposed” upon us all it has taken on a new feeling. I have strived to accomplish some tasks which for the past 20 years I have avoided, like scanning the best of the 40-60 thousand transparencies in my files. With over 1,000 scans done in the past few months I am making some headway. The selection ratio is around 15%. The best part is bringing old memories to the surface from as far back as 1970 in Steamboat Springs, CO. Ski races, fashion shoots and travels around Europe, Hawaii and New Zealand were some of the best moments of my career. Then there are the family captures, using the kids as lifestyle models, how much they’ve grown.
Spent the day on the St. Lawrence River with friends and dancers from Akwesasne. They are truly a special group of people who maintain traditions and values which the rest of us can truly learn from. Their respect for nature and each other is remarkable. Rushing is not in their vocabulary. Thanking and honoring one another is always the prerequisite. Giving back to nature as much as you take, remembering that without mother earth there would be no “us”. And that without nature we could no longer exist, but on the other hand nature could get along just fine without people.
Here’s a short example of their dances.
Always amazed at the work of photographers doing night sky images. The skill, planning but foremost the determination to stay up late in the often cold night air. Shot this on Wild Walk at The Wild Center in August of 2016. Didn’t really know where the Milky Way would be and lucked out as it revolved around the towers and eagles’ nest.
Shot this with Nikon D4. If memory serves me right, it was about 18mm lens zoom, ISO 3200 and around 30 second exposure at f2.8. Added a little light painting on the towers with a dim AA tungsten flashlight.
This is one of the perks of living in one of darkest regions in the country.
One of the best parts of what I do is the opportunity to capture and produce stories from interesting people. And The Wild Center has provided many of those story ideas. This is such a rewarding part of what I do since I’m not just selling a product or location but rather educating viewers about ideas that can change their lives.
rg
Labor Day has come and gone. This summer seemed to fly away as rapidly as this past holiday weekend. Leaves are beginning to change, time to think about another fall movie and new stills of this wonderful region, The Adirondacks.
I hope to add more personal works to the site this week. The online world is such a great opportunity to share my personal visions with the world. Hope more of “the world” drops by and takes a look.
Next step, organize the photography page in logical categories.
Enjoy, rg
Conforming videos on Vimeo, learning WordPress, trying to keep themes, menus and settings organized in my old head is a bit of a learning curve. Thankfully I can fall back on basic html code to tweak things.
rg
Please bear with me as I move my site to this platform. Hope it allows me to be able to share not only current work but my past adventures in a more up to date style.
thanks, rg
