I take photographs everyday. I wear shoes, I wear glasses and I take pictures everyday. I don’t get a picture I like everyday but I look at everything everyday and photographs are taken everyday. I don’t do this for money or to win a prize. I take the pictures with the goal of getting one I really like. To get a photograph I like or love is the prize. Here’s one that I like a lot. It’s my prize for taking pictures in St. Louis last week. A good day in St. Louis with a photographic bonus. 😎
Maybe the best part of photography for me is the gathering of evidence. I took this photo in Syracuse, NY. Now I have a little piece of proof I was in Syracuse. I collect these little bits of evidence in every place I visit. Not all are interesting or compelling. If they are not I don’t save them. So if the photo fails I must go back and try again. This is basically everything I have to say about my photographs. At least today…
I first started doing real commercial work in my early 20s around 23 or 24. So I had to buy real equipment. I started with Leicas and later also bought Nikons. The Nikons were F3HPs and the Leicas were M4, M6 and M3s. Whenever I would travel and bump into a friend, they would always say, oh can I see your camera? And pretty much they would end up taking a picture of me. Here’s a photo of me taken in the mid-1980s. I’m in my 20s. I have no idea who took it, but I think it’s a great shot.
Found in the Sack of Rejects! 😎
So from the Reject Sack I found another picture I like! I don’t know where it’s taken but it’s circa 1981. I’m gonna guess lower Manhattan but it also might be Hoboken, NJ. Either way it’s a fun find for me. 😎
Found in the Sack of Rejects that I’m still sorting through. This one is circa 1987. Obviously it’s the Entrance to some place in the Arctic. I can only guess where, but I like it! 😎
Another photo found in the rejected photos from The 1980s archives. I’m going through 10s of thousand of slides I rejected yet saved from the very beginning of my career. I was in my very early 20s and shooting everyday for myself while home or on assignments.
This photo of two nuns on 5th Ave is in front of the construction of Trump Tower in 1982.
