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my interview with phodcast’s Robert Norman

March 7, 2010 – 7:18 am

A few weeks ago, at Inspire Boston, I was interviewed by Connecticut photographer Robert Norman for his Phodcast series on local New England photographers. It was a fun evening, and everyone else seemed to be fairly marinated in various liquids from the Pictage hosted open bar, which is in my limited experience a decent way to prepare for a recorded interview.

You can listen to it on itunes.

step 1. search phodcast in iTunes

step 2. Scroll down to #18

step 3. pour a glass of wine

step 4. press play

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Road Trip | Vermont

August 27, 2009 – 9:30 am

With summer wedding season in full swing, and maintaining a deliriously exhausting bi-coastal business, it’s been a while since Trent and Sadie and I had any length of pack tie. We  relived our cross country road trip experience a few weeks ago, when we drove up to Northfield, Vermont to attend a wedding celebration. That’s right, I didn’t take my camera out at all except to take a few landscapes.

We cooled off my jumping in Sunset Lake in Brookfield. Lake swimming – the perfect way to handle August.

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Portrait | Molly the Molecule | Walden Pond Redux

August 7, 2009 – 8:06 am

Molly is a year older and still an amazing subject. Once again I was able to spend an afternoon with Molly and her mom at one of their favorite summertime haunts, Walden Pond.  It was so hot this week, as my New England readers can attest, that diving into the water after a sticky car ride on route 2 offered a revitalizing and memorable relief.

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Though we’ve been spending more time together, Molly eyes me with a bit of skepticsm.

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A little square format love.

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Regional Cuisine | New England

July 24, 2009 – 6:16 am

Another treat from childhood – the sticky joy of devouring a fluffernutter sandwich. [For those of your who are inexperienced with this New England classic click here]

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Still Life with Fluff

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Fluffernutter on wheat.


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streets I’ve been on recently that I suspect have something to do with JK Rowling

July 23, 2009 – 3:20 pm

In honor of the new HP movie . . . .

I’ve created a list of streets I’ve been on recently that I suspect have something to do with JK Rowling

1. Holloway Avenue

2. Sneath Lane

3. Ormsby Cutoff

4. Buzzard Lagoon

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Portraits | Emily & Ayden | Summertime

July 22, 2009 – 9:31 am

Childhood and summer. They go together pretty well.  Spending so much time this summer back on the east coast, I began to remember how divine the heat of summer could be.  The delight of jumping of things. The glee in hanging upsidedown from the monkey bars and watching the world from a new prospective.  And so I was able to vicariously relive all this with the irrepressible Emily and her patient big brother Ayden.

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Monkey bars.

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Swinging.

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Trying to do what your big brother can do.

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Jump.

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A little ‘Lyrical’ happening.


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on the road | Los Angeles | Backyard Film Screening

June 21, 2009 – 9:25 am

I flew in early in LA for Dan and Grace’s wedding, and the night before my friend filmmaker Kelly Sears invited me to a backyard screening.  Tucked away in a steeply graded backyard, a makeshift screen was set up. Popcorn was passed out, and we sat in makeshift bleachers while we watched a series of short films and animations from local filmmakers.

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Thanks for inviting me, Kelly. I love outdoor film going.

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in search of the lyrical

March 6, 2009 – 5:18 pm

I actually crossed three lanes of traffic to pull over and capture this double rainbow.  It was this vibrant in person. I’ve never seen a rainbow that was so distinctly a prism like this.  It was breathtaking.

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in search of the lyrical: street photography

February 27, 2009 – 5:16 pm

Literally.

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

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in search of the lyrical: grayscale landscape inspired by Mondrian

February 20, 2009 – 5:13 pm

grayscale landscape inspired by Piet Mondrian:

 

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