Quasi July Fourth

So it was a few days before, the meal was not quite hamburgers and hotdogs, but it was outside and there was beer. I had only had Maryland Crab once before and this time the experience was much the same. As much as it is about the crabs, it is about having a communal meal with your friends and enjoying the summer.

Inc. Magazine July Cover

I have now shot over 25 magazine covers and it is still very exciting to hold the finished copy for the first time. There is just something special about seeing your photograph under the masthead, at the newsstand or better yet when a stranger is reading a copy. My mom has even been known to carry a copy with her to show her friends.

Figure Ground

I always say that my education was divided into three parts, a B.F.A. in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, assisting for Annie Leibovitz and the year I took off from school to play in a band. What I learned during each of these periods played an equally important role in helping me to be photographer. Some background: two years ago on the morning of my wedding, the members of my old band Figure Ground assembled in a New York City practice space to play together for the first time in fifteen years. Guitarist Eric Carlson’s wife, Erica having not seen us play before, became convinced that a reunion show was in order. We were not as convinced until about six months ago, when it came to our attention that a seventeen year old video of Figure Ground, sound checking in Columbus Ohio, appeared on YouTube. Unbeknownst to us, it appears from the comments that we were big in Norway all along. So after seventeen years I am once again in a band and ready to continue my education.

Figure Ground will be playing at the Cedars Lounge in Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday, September 1st and we hope to tour Norway in the future.