Latest News and Exhibitions

I hope you are enjoying your summer!  So many things are happening around here that I haven't had the chance to let you know what has been going on.  I have been so fortunate to be selected for the following exhibitions and publications!  I am thankful for you for your continued support and I hope to see you at one of these events.

Upcoming Shows:

August 2nd - September 15th - Photo Center NW "Musings: 18th Annual Photo Competition" 

August 2nd - 31st Black Box Gallery "Color Photography Now"

August 2nd - August 31st Seities Gallery, Alberta Canada - Featured Artist

October 4th - 26th - The Center For Fine Art Photography "Center Forward"

October 12th - November 17th - The Art of Photography Show - San Diego, CA

Recent Publications and Events:

"Reflected Identities" featured in Square Magazine

Featured in Museé Magazine

Slideshow Selected for Slideluck Potshow in Ireland

Seities Magazine - Featured Member 

Nighttime at Columbia University

This Monday, I finally got around to taking the long exposures around Columbia University that had been on my to-do list.  I'm so glad that I didn't put this off any longer.























I may be falling in love.

Rainy Day in NYC

We had an entire day tour scheduled for Monday, but it was rainy.







The bottom fell out of the sky while we were at Louis Kahn's Roosevelt Memorial.



We improvised our walking tour a bit in Manhattan.







And sought shelter in Grand Central Station.

The Guggenheim Museum NYC

The Guggenheim Museum in NYC is open to donation of choice (we each paid $1) on Saturdays after 5 PM.  The line wraps all the way around the street corner.  There's strictly no photography inside the museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which is a bit of a bummer, but understandable.













The James Turrell exhibit was interesting.  He transformed the atrium into a light exhibit which looked really cool from the bottom, but it caused the rest of the building to be really dark.  One of the most interesting things about Frank Lloyd Wright's design is the circulation of the building.  However, I felt that it was obstructed by the light exhibit.  I'd like to go when that's not in place to see how the building really looks from the inside.


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York, NY 10128

4th of July in NYC

We had the day off for Independence Day.  Our only real plan was to watch the Macy's Fireworks over the Hudson River, but we didn't really know how to go about doing that.  The Macy's website listed where the barges would be and where to view from, but we didn't know how early it was necessary to be there to reserve spots.  We also didn't know if we'd be allowed to bring coolers, chairs, and the like for holding spots after reading mixed reviews online.  I decided it was worth it to try to bring my travel tripod.

We got off the subway at 34th Street, and after talking to our friends who were ahead of us getting there, we knew that we needed to start moving south.  We ended up finding a location at 30th and 10th, right by the High Line.  Because of the construction, it wasn't the prettiest view.

I think by the time we finally got settled, it was 7:50 PM.  We thought fireworks started at 8:30 PM, but they ended up starting at 9.

















According to the Macy's website, the show was choreographed to music, but we couldn't hear any from where we were standing.  It was a surprisingly lengthy show.  I wouldn't have minded being a little closer, though.  Not quite Disney status, but much better than a backyard SC show!

Empire State Building

I guess my reward for getting my work done Sunday afternoon was that I was free to go to the Empire State Building with a friend that night.  It was his last night in NYC, and he really wanted to go to the top of the Empire State Building.  Being one of the only ones finished, I got to go with him.

The Empire State Building is open until 2AM.  We arrived on Sunday around 11PM.  Luckily for us, the skies had finally cleared (there was zero visibility from the top earlier that day).



There was absolutely no line for tickets.  We walked right in.  Tickets to the 86th floor are $25, and you can pay an extra $17 to go to a higher viewing platform.  We stuck with the $25 ticket.  They also advertised $50 passes which let you skip the lines, but there were no lines for us to skip.  We walked right through.



Tripods aren't allowed, but I brought along a small Gorillapod which I used to stabilize my camera.  My lenses (Nikon 1 10-30mm and 30-110mm) aren't quite large enough to just let my camera rest on the edge by itself.  Other DSLR users looked to be having luck just resting their camera on the edge.  I got away with the Gorillapod until the very end, when we were about to leave, and a security guard came over to me and told me that I had to take my tripod off because they aren't allowed (it's seriously like 6" tall).  I didn't argue because I already had all the shots I wanted, but I don't see how my small Gorillapod was any different than just resting a camera on the ledge.



It's pretty easy to pick out Times Square at night...







The tower was illuminated in rainbow colors for New York City Pride Week.







It was really a great time to go to the top of the Empire State Building.  It wasn't crowded at all, and the weather was wonderful.


Empire State Building
350 5th Avenue, New York, NY